garçom

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• garção (dated)
• garçon

Etymology

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

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡaʁˈsõ/ [ɡahˈsõ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡaʁˈsõ/ [ɡahˈsõ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ɡaɾˈsõ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ɡaʁˈsõ/ [ɡaχˈsõ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡaɻˈsõ/

Noun

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

1. (Brazil) waiter (a server in a restaurant or similar)

   Synonyms: copeiro, empregado de mesa