mensageiro
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
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 (“I send”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-, *mith₂- (“to exchange, remove”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
mensageiro m (plural mensageiros, feminine mensageira, feminine plural mensageiras)
- messenger (one who brings messages)
- mailman (one who delivers and collects mail and packages)
- (figurative) herald; harbinger
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