Noun: engenheiro
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | engenheiro |
| Singular f | engenheira |
| Plural m | engenheiros |
| Plural f | engenheiras |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like engenheiro
desamparado,
perdulário,
metafísico,
epistemólogo,
miliciano,
celibatário,
fiduciário,
favelado,
janeleiro,
safado,
sancto,
entomólogo,
ostrogodo,
sisudo,
bucaneiro,
alentejano,
beduíno,
faroleiro,
palestino,
georgiano, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Calque of Medieval Latin ingeniārius (“one who makes or uses an engine”), composed of inherited engenho + -eiro, from Latin ingenium (“an engine”). Alternatively a calque of French ingénieur composed in the same fashion. Compare also Spanish ingeniero. See: Latin Nouns '
ingenium', French Nouns '
ingénieur', Spanish Nouns '
ingeniero'.
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