garçom

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Portuguese

[edit]
Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From French garçon (waiter; boy), from Middle French, from Old French garçun (servant, oblique case of gars), from Frankish *warkjon, wrakjon (servant, boy, oblique case of *warkjo, wrakjo), from Proto-Germanic *wrakjô (exile, driven one), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (to drive).

Pronunciation

[edit]
 

  • Hyphenation: gar‧çom

Noun

[edit]

garçom m (plural garçons, feminine garçonete, feminine plural garçonetes)

  1. (Brazil) waiter (a server in a restaurant or similar)
    Synonyms: empregado de mesa, (Brazil) copeiro