engin
Old French
noun
Definitions
- intelligence
- ruse; trickery; deception
- invention; ingenuity; creativity
- machine; device; contraption
Etymology
Inherited from Latin ingenium (an engine, nature, innate natural quality, genius, an invention, a producer, a genius, machine, LL).
Origin
Latin
ingenium
Gloss
an engine, nature, innate natural quality, genius, an invention, a producer, a genius, machine, LL
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
機
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- engine English
- gin English
- ginhouse English
- ginless English
- ginlike English
- ginner English
- ginnery English
- ginny English
- ginshop English
- ginsoaked English
- ginwright English
- ingeny English
- gignō Latin
- ingeniarius Latin
- ingeniator Latin
- ingenium Latin
- ingeniārius Latin
- ginnare Italian
- ingegno Italian
- genever Dutch, Flemish
- gijn Dutch, Flemish
- engin French
- gin French
- ingénier French
- джин Russian
- ingenio Spanish, Castilian
- γιγνώσκω Ancient Greek
- *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- gim Portuguese
- gin Swedish
- ジン Japanese
- jin Irish
- ĝino Esperanto
- enginy Catalan, Valencian
- τζιν Greek (modern)
- engîn Norman
- джин Bulgarian
- ג׳ין Hebrew (modern)
- džinn Estonian
- engenno Old Portuguese
- 氈酒 Chinese
- jini Swahili
- ingine Scots
- engenno Old Spanish
- gnegnu Sicilian
- engine xno
- kini Hawaiian
- jin Abenaki