correo

Unknown. Attested since the 13th century, and so probably unrelated to the following etymology.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [koˈreʊ]

correo m (plural correos)

1. (archaic) money bag
   • 1291, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 75:

     Et esta carta leuda o dito Pedro Peres mostrou hun correo con dineiros et disso frontando a Pedro Rodriguez que entregasse de todalas cousas que filaran ao bispo

     And after reading this letter said Pedro Pérez showed a bag with money, and said, confronting Pedro Rodríguez, that he should return everything that he has taken from the bishop

   • 1455, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 315:

     Médea dusia de colleres de buxo, que acharon en un correo pechado, et mays acharon eno dito correo noue mrs en rayás et triinta mrs en coroados vellos.

     Half a dozen boxwood spoons, that they found inside a locked money bag, and they also found inside said money bag nine maravedis in royals and thirty maravedis in old crowns

From Spanish correo, from Catalan correu, ultimately from Old French corlieu.

• IPA^(key): [koˈreʊ]

correo m (plural correos)

1. mail
2. messenger, courier

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “correo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “correo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “correo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “correo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from Latin correus, derived from con- (“with”) +‎ reus (“accused, defendant”).

• IPA^(key): /korˈrɛ.o/, (traditional) /ˈkɔr.re.o/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛo, (traditional) -ɔrreo
• Hyphenation: cor‧rè‧o, (traditional) còr‧re‧o

correo m (plural correi, feminine correa)

1. (law) accomplice

   Synonyms: complice, corresponsabile

• reo

• correo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

correō

1. dative/ablative singular of correus

Borrowed from Catalan correu.

• IPA^(key): /koˈreo/ [koˈre.o]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eo
• Syllabification: co‧rre‧o

correo m (plural correos)

1. mail
2. (also in the plural) post office
3. email

   revisar mi correo

   check my email

• >? Portuguese: correio

• “correo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024