Would you trust dictionary.com? It agrees with Wikipedia. Origin: 1350–1400; engine + -eer; replacing Middle English engin ( e ) our < Anglo-French engineo

Would you trust dictionary.com? It agrees with Wikipedia. Origin: 1350–1400; engine + -eer; replacing Middle English engin ( e ) our < Anglo-French engineor Old French engigneor < Medieval Latin ingeniātor, equivalent to ingeniā ( re ) to design, devise (verbal derivative of ingenium; see engine) + Latin -tor -tor http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/engineer http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/engineer