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Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin genius. Sense 2.0 also based on Arabic جِنّ (jinn).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛnju
- Hyphenation: gé‧ni‧o
Noun
génio m (plural génios) (European spelling)
- genius
- (Roman mythology) the tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person
- a trait of personal character; characteristic; nature, quality
- Synonyms: índole, natureza
- someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.
- genie, Jinn (a spirit, either good or evil, of pre-Islamic and Islamic mythology)
- irritability (the tendency of getting angry, annoyed)
- Synonyms: irritabilidade, irascibilidade