xenio

See also: xénio

Galician

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin genius.

Alternative forms

• génio (reintegrationist)
• xeño

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛnjʊ/

Noun

xenio m (plural xenios)

1. (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,

2. (countable) genius (someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill)
3. 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

4. (uncountable) irritability (the tendency of getting angry, annoyed)

   Synonyms: irritabilidade, irascibilidade

Derived terms

• dar xenio

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic جِنّ (jinn).

Noun

xenio m (plural xenios)

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

References

• 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, 2012–2024

Latin

Noun

xeniō

1. dative/ablative singular of xenium