xenio
See also: xénio
Galician
editEtymology 1
editLearned borrowing from Latin genius.
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
editxenio m (plural xenios)
- (uncountable) genius (extraordinary mental capacity)
- 1723, Anselmo Feixó e Montenegro, E vós non vedes a teima?:
- 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,
- Don't you see the idée fixe
- (countable) genius (someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill)
- temper
- 1895, A. López Ferreiro, A tecedeira de Bonaval, page 170:
- 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
- (uncountable) irritability (the tendency of getting angry, annoyed)
- Synonyms: irritabilidade, irascibilidade
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editBorrowed from Arabic جِنّ (jinn).
Noun
editxenio m (plural xenios)
References
edit- “xenio” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “xenio” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “xenio” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Latin
editNoun
editxeniō
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