operário

Meaning

1. (masculine) worker, workman
2. (masculine) operative, operator

Concepts

worker

labourer

laborer

employee

workman

blue-collar worker

workingman

hand

✋

proletarian

working man

hired hand

hired man

manual laborer

working girl

prole

working person

blue-collar

mazdoor

charwoman

day labourer

industrial worker

jack

maid

operative

plodder

wage earner

day laborer

Synonyms

trabalhador

obreiro

funcionário

mercenário

proletário

assalariado

empregado

colarinho azul

Trabalhador

empregada

Translations

ouvrier

Arbeiter

werker

operaio

arbeider

travailleur

obrero

werkkracht

werkman

işçi

trabajador

εργάτης

obrer

operarius

Pronounced as (IPA)

/o.peˈɾa.ɾi.u/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin: operārius

In summary

Learned borrowing from Latin operārius. Compare the inherited doublet obreiro.