xenio

See also: xénio

Galician

Learned borrowing from Latin genius.

xenio 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,
(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

Borrowed from Arabic جِنّ (jinn).

xenio m (plural xenios)

genie, Jinn (a spirit, either good or evil, of pre-Islamic and Islamic mythology)

Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “xenio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “xenio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “xenio”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
“xenio”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

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