ensino
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
Deverbal from ensinar (“to teach”).
Noun edit
ensino m (uncountable)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “ensino” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
ensino
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -inu
- Hyphenation: en‧si‧no
Etymology 1 edit
Deverbal from ensinar (“to teach”), from Old Galician-Portuguese ensinar, from Vulgar Latin īnsignō (“to engrave”), Latin signum (“mark”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Noun edit
ensino m (usually uncountable, plural ensinos)
- teaching (the profession of teaching)
- Synonyms: instrução, educação, ensinamento, doutrina
- Antonym: esquecimento
Derived terms edit
- ensino fundamental (Brazil) / ensino básico (Portugal)
- ensino médio (Brazil) / ensino secundário (Portugal)
- ensino superior
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
ensino
- first-person singular present indicative of ensinar; "I teach"
Further reading edit
- “ensino” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “ensino” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.