English Explanatory Dictionary

engenho

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A sugar mill in colonial Brazil.

Word forms

engenho engenhos

Etymology

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

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