freguês

Meaning

1. (masculine) regular (frequent customer, client or business partner)
2. (masculine) customer (one who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so)
3. (Brazil, derogatory, masculine) sports team that often loses to a particular opponent, or member of such team
4. (Portugal, masculine) parishioner (citizen or inhabitant of an administrative parish of Portugal)

Concepts

buyer

client

customer

purchaser

patron

guest

shopper

sojourner

vendee

acquirer

ordering party

associate

emptor

host

possessor

punter

Synonyms

comprador

cliente

freguesa

hóspede

visita

consumidor

adquirente

anfitrião

Translations

klant

cliente

cliente

client

afnemer

alıcı

compratore

Kunde

müşteri

client

πελάτης

cliënt

Abnehmer

koper

Käufer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɾeˈɡe(j)s/

Etymology

Cognate with Galician: fregués

Cognate with Spanish: feligrés

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese feegres, from Vulgar Latin fīl(ius) ecclēsiae (“son of the church”). Cognate with Galician fregués and Spanish feligrés.