ingeniería

/inxenjeˈɾia/ · B2 · noun · f

engineering

⚙️🔧 Shares a root with engine: both come from Latin ingenium, inborn cleverness

Ingeniería = ingeniero (engineer) + -ía, the suffix that names a field. Ingeniero itself comes from ingenio, meaning cleverness or a clever device. That same root gives English the words engine and ingenious.

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