enganar

From Old Galician-Portuguese enganar, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin ingannāre, present active infinitive of ingannō (“I trick, deceive”) (attested in a gloss), from Latin ganniō, gannīre. Compare Portuguese enganar and Spanish engañar.

• IPA^(key): [eŋɡaˈnaɾ]

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. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to be mistaken; to make a mistake

   Synonyms: equivocar, trabucar

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

4. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to deceive oneself

• desenganar
• engano

• “enganar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “engan” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “enganar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “enganar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “enganar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “enganar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Occitan enganar, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin ingannāre, present active infinitive of ingannō (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

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

• Hyphenation: en‧ga‧nar

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

1. (transitive) to deceive

   Não o engane. ― Don't deceive him.

   As aparências enganam. ― Appearances are deceiving.

2. (transitive) to cheat, swindle
3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to be mistaken

   Synonym: equivocar

   Enganei-me. ― I was wrong.

4. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to deceive oneself
5. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to make a mistake

   Enganaram-se. ― They made a mistake.

6. (reflexive) to make a mistake in thought; to be wrong

   Synonym: errar

   Pensei que esse livro seria bom, mas enganei-me.

   I thought this book would be good, but I was wrong.

• “enganar” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “enganar” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “enganar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “enganar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “enganar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “enganar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.