mensageiro
Portuguese
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editEtymology
editFrom mensagem (“message”) + -eiro (“-eer”) (compare Galician mensaxeiro, Spanish mensajero), from Old French message (“message”), from Late Latin missāticum, from Latin missum, the supine of mittō (“to send”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange, remove”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: men‧sa‧gei‧ro
Noun
editmensageiro m (plural mensageiros, feminine mensageira, feminine plural mensageiras)
- messenger (one who brings messages)
- mailman (one who delivers and collects mail and packages)
- (figurative) herald; harbinger
Derived terms
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- Portuguese terms suffixed with -eiro
- Portuguese terms derived from Old French
- Portuguese terms derived from Late Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
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- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
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- Portuguese masculine nouns
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