mendigo

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

Etymology

From Old Portuguese mendigo, from Latin mendīcus.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mẽ.ˈdi.ɣu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mẽ.ˈd͡ʒi.ɡu/
  • (colloquial) IPA^(key): /mĩ.ˈd͡ʒi.ɡu/
  • (very colloquial) IPA^(key): /mĩ.ˈd͡ʒĩ.ɡu/
• Hyphenation: men‧di‧go

Noun

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

1. beggar (person who begs for a living)

Verb

mendigo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of mendigar

Etymology

From Latin mendīcus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iɣo

Noun

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

1. beggar

Verb

mendigo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of mendigar.