mensageiro
Portuguese
/ˌmẽ.sa.ˈʒe(j).ɾo/
noun
Definitions
- messenger one who brings messages
- mailman one who delivers and collects mail and packages
- (figurative) herald; harbinger
Etymology
Affix from Portuguese mensagem (message) derived from Old French message (message) derived from Latin missāticum, missum derived from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (exchange, remove).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*meyth₂-
Gloss
exchange, remove
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- message English
- missa Latin
- missaticum Latin
- missum Latin
- missus Latin
- missāticum Latin
- mittō Latin
- message French
- mets French
- mensaje Spanish, Castilian
- mensajero Spanish, Castilian
- *mey, *meyth₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *meyth₂- Proto-Indo-European
- mensagem Portuguese
- message Old French
- messagerie Old French
- messagier Old French
- mensaxeiro Galician
- m'sage Norman
- mensahero Tagalog
- message Middle French
- message Scots
- messatge Old Occitan
- mensagero Old Spanish
- message Interlingua