engenho

== English == === Etymology === From Portuguese engenho (“machine; sugar mill”), from Old Galician-Portuguese engenno, from Latin ingenium. Doublet of engine. === Noun === engenho (plural engenhos) (historical) A sugar mill in colonial Brazil. === Further reading === engenho on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Portuguese == === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese engenho, from Latin ingenium. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -eɲu, -ɐɲu Hyphenation: en‧ge‧nho === Noun === engenho m (plural engenhos) ingenuity (the quality of being ingenious) Synonym: engenhosidade astuteness (the quality of being astute) Synonyms: astúcia, esperteza machine (mechanical device) (obsolete or historical) factory (industrial facility) Synonyms: fábrica, usina 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 ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “engenho”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “engenho”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026