enganar
Meaning
- (transitive) to deceive
- (transitive) to cheat, swindle
- (pronominal) to be mistaken; to be wrong
- (pronominal) to deceive oneself
- (pronominal) to make a mistake
Frequency
Hyphenated as
en‧ga‧nar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ẽ.ɡaˈna(ʁ)/
Etymology
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.
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