engenharia

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-redup.

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *ǵíǵn̥h₁etider.

Proto-Italic

Latin gignō

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -iusnom.

Latin -ium

Latin ingenium

Old Galician-Portuguese engenho

Portuguese engenho

Portuguese -aria

Portuguese engenharia

From engenho + -aria. Compare Spanish ingeniería. Piecewise doublet of engenheira.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful) /ẽ.ʒẽ.ɲaˈɾi.ɐ/ [ẽ.ʒẽ.j̃aˈɾi.ɐ], /ĩ.ʒẽ.ɲaˈɾi.ɐ/ [ĩ.ʒẽ.j̃aˈɾi.ɐ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ẽ.ʒɨ.ɲɐˈɾi.ɐ/

Noun

engenharia f (plural engenharias)

1. engineering

Further reading

• “engenharia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “engenharia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026