mendigo
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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
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