enganar

From Old Galician-Portuguese enganar, from Early Medieval Latin ingannāre (“to trick, deceive”) (attested in a gloss), from Latin ganniō, gannīre. Compare Portuguese enganar and Spanish engañar.

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: en‧ga‧nar

enganar (first-person singular present engano, first-person singular preterite enganei, past participle enganado)

1. (transitive) to deceive; to mislead
2. (transitive) to cheat, swindle
3. (pronominal) to be mistaken; to make a mistake

   Synonyms: equivocar, trabucar

   Enganacheste. ― You were wrong / You made a mistake.

4. (pronominal) to deceive oneself

• desenganar
• engano

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “enganar”, 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), “enganar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “enganar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “enganar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Occitan enganar, from Early Medieval Latin ingannāre (attested in a gloss), from Latin ganniō. Compare Catalan enganyar, Old French engignier, Italian ingannare.

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enganar

1. to deceive
2. (reflexive, s'enganar) to make a mistake

• ẽganar, emganar, engañar, enguanar

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin ingannāre, from in- + *gannō.

enganar

1. (transitive) to deceive

• Fala: enganal
• Galician: enganar
• Portuguese: enganar
  • → Old Tupi:
    • Nheengatu: ganani

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “engan”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “enganar”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2026), “enganar”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “enganar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Old Galician-Portuguese enganar, from Early Medieval Latin ingannāre (“to trick, to deceive”) (attested in a gloss), from Latin gannīre. Compare Spanish engañar, Italian ingannare.

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• Hyphenation: en‧ga‧nar

enganar (first-person singular present engano, first-person singular preterite enganei, past participle enganado)

1. (transitive) to deceive

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:enganar

   Não o engane. ― Don't deceive him.

   As aparências enganam. ― Appearances are deceiving.

2. (transitive) to cheat, swindle
3. (pronominal) to be mistaken; to be wrong

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:errar

   Pensei que esse livro seria bom, mas enganei-me. ― I thought this book would be good, but I was wrong.

4. (pronominal) to deceive oneself
5. (pronominal) to make a mistake

   Enganaram-se. ― They made a mistake.

• → Old Tupi:
  • Nheengatu: ganani

• “enganar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “enganar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “enganar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “enganar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “enganar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026