génio
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin genius. Sense 2.0 also based on Arabic جِنّ (jinn).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛnju
- Hyphenation: gé‧ni‧o
Noun
[edit]génio m (plural génios) (European Portuguese spelling)
- genius
- (Roman mythology) the tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person
- a trait of personal character; characteristic; nature, quality
- someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.
- genie, Jinn (a spirit, either good or evil, of pre-Islamic and Islamic mythology)
- irritability (the tendency of getting angry, annoyed)
- Synonyms: irritabilidade, irascibilidade
Categories:
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Latin
- Portuguese learned borrowings from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Arabic
- Portuguese terms derived from Arabic
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛnju
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛnju/3 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- European Portuguese forms
- pt:Roman mythology