enginyar

Inherited from Latin ingeniāre, from ingenium.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əɲ.ʒiˈɲa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [eɲ.d͡ʒiˈɲaɾ]

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enginyar (first-person singular present enginyo, first-person singular preterite enginyí, past participle enginyat)

1. (transitive) to invent, to devise
2. (pronominal, transitive) to find a way (to), to manage (to)

   M'havia enginyat a trobar els mitjans d'anar superant les circumstàncies adverses.

   I had managed to find the means of overcoming adverse circumstances.

• “enginyar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007