serviço

Meaning

  1. (masculine) service (work that is produced, traded, sold, then consumed)
  2. (masculine) work; labour
  3. (masculine) job; a task
  4. (masculine) workplace
  5. (masculine) the way a commercial establishment serves the costumers
  6. (masculine) service (religious rite or ritual)
  7. (masculine) service

Frequency

A2
Hyphenated as
ser‧vi‧ço
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/seʁˈvi.su/
Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese serviço, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin servitium (“slavery; servitude”) (compare Italian servizio, French service, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus (“serf”). By surface analysis, servo + -iço.

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