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Portuguese

/ẽ.ˈʒe.ɲu/

noun
Definitions
  • ingenuity the quality of being ingenious
  • astuteness the quality of being astute
  • machine mechanical device
  • (obsolete) factory industrial facility
  • sugar mill machine for pressing out the juice of the sugar cane
  • sugar mill factory that processes sugar cane
  • (South Brazil) factory that processes yerba maté leaves

Etymology

Inherited from Old Portuguese engenno 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

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