amigo
Meaning
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- (masculine) friend (person whose company one enjoys)
- (masculine) friend (an associate or thing which provides assistance)
- (masculine) a state with good relations with another state
- (Brazil,colloquial,masculine) A term of address for someone
Frequency
Hyphenated as
a‧mi‧go
Pronounced as (IPA)
/aˈmi.ɡu/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese amigo, from Latin amīcus (“friend; friendly”), from amō (“to love”) + -icus. Compare Catalan amic, French ami, Italian amico, Romanian amic and Spanish amigo.
New
amigar
- to befriend
- to make friends (with)
- (derogatory,reflexive) to shack up (to live together unmarried)
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