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engenho

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
en-gen-ho
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sugar mill in colonial Brazil.

Etymology

From Portuguese engenho (“machine; sugar mill”), from Old Galician-Portuguese engenno, from Latin ingenium. Doublet of engine.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: engenho, engenno, ingenium

Inflected Forms

engenhos (plural)

Questions

What does engenho mean?
A sugar mill in colonial Brazil.
Where does engenho come from?
It is traced to Portuguese.

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