mendigo
See also: mendigó
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish mendigo.
Noun edit
mendigo (plural mendigos)
- A beggar.
- 1887, Fanny Chambers Gooch Iglehart, “chapter IX”, in Face to Face with the Mexicans:
- Sitting complacently upon a broken, fallen column, we beheld an object that filled us with horror—an Indian mendigo, a representation in one, of the ancient Aztec, the pobre Mexicano, and the gentleman of the nineteenth century.
Anagrams edit
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Brazil, colloquial) IPA(key): /mĩ.ˈd͡ʒi.ɡu/
- (Brazil, very colloquial) IPA(key): /mĩ.ˈd͡ʒĩ.ɡu/
- Hyphenation: men‧di‧go
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese mendigo, from Latin mendīcus.
Noun edit
mendigo m (plural mendigos, feminine mendiga, feminine plural mendigas)
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:mendigo.
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
mendigo
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
mendigo m (plural mendigos, feminine mendiga, feminine plural mendigas)
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
mendigo
Further reading edit
- “mendigo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014