/ˈʃɛnjo/, [ˈʃɛ.njʊ]
OriginLearned borrowing from Latin genius.
- masculine, uncountablegenius (extraordinary mental capacity)
“E Vos non vedes à teima
En que deu à mia gente,
Que ey de glossar de repente
Sin ter geño nin freima:
Vàn à Madril eu a Reyma,” — Don't you see the idée fixe
my people have caught
that I'm going to gloss at the moment
having no genius or phlegm?
They are going to Madrid, I to the ream,
- countable, masculinegenius (someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill)
- masculinetemper
“a situación tristísima e máis que lamentábel da súa nai, enferma, sin recursos e, para maor desgracia, de xenio tan atufado, enrenico e mal cabido, que naide se ladaba con ela” — the very sad and lamentable position of her mother, sick, resourceless and, adding insult to injury, having such a haughty, rude and misfit temper, that none got along with her
- masculine, uncountableirritability (the tendency of getting angry, annoyed)
- masculinegenie, Jinn (a spirit, either good or evil, of pre-Islamic and Islamic mythology)
Formsxenios(plural) · génio(alternative) · xeño(alternative)