mendigo

See also: mendigó and méndigo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mendigo.

Noun

mendigo (plural mendigos)

1. A beggar.
   • 1887, Fanny Chambers Gooch Iglehart, “chapter IX”, in Face to Face with the Mexicans:

     Sitting complacently upon a broken, fallen column, we beheld an object that filled us with horror—an Indian mendigo, a representation in one, of the ancient Aztec, the pobre Mexicano, and the gentleman of the nineteenth century.

Anagrams

• demoing

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mẽˈd͡ʒi.ɡu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mẽˈd͡ʒi.ɡu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /mẽˈd͡ʒi.ɡo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mẽˈdi.ɡu/ [mẽˈdi.ɣu]

• (Brazil, colloquial) IPA^(key): /mĩ.ˈd͡ʒi.ɡu/
• (Brazil, very colloquial) IPA^(key): /mĩ.ˈd͡ʒĩ.ɡu/
• Rhymes: -iɡu
• Hyphenation: men‧di‧go

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese mendigo, from Latin mendīcus.

Noun

mendigo m (plural mendigos, feminine mendiga, feminine plural mendigas)

1. beggar (person who begs for a living)

   Synonym: pedinte

2. a homeless person

   Synonyms: sem-teto, morador de rua, pessoa em situação de rua

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:mendigo.

Derived terms

• mendigar
• mendigaria

 

Related terms

• mendicância
• mendicante
• mendicidade

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mendigo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mendigar

Further reading

• “mendigo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /menˈdiɡo/ [mẽn̪ˈd̪i.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -iɡo
• Syllabification: men‧di‧go

Etymology 1

From Latin mendīcus.

Noun

mendigo m (plural mendigos, feminine mendiga, feminine plural mendigas)

1. beggar (person who begs for a living)

   Synonym: limosnero

Related terms

• mendicante

 

Etymology 2

Verb

mendigo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mendigar

Further reading

• “mendigo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014