mensageiro

Meaning

  1. (masculine) messenger (one who brings messages)
  2. (masculine) mailman (one who delivers and collects mail and packages)
  3. (figuratively,masculine) herald; harbinger

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
men‧sa‧gei‧ro
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/mẽ.saˈʒe(j).ɾu/
Etymology

From 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”).

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