mendigo

Borrowed from Spanish mendigo.

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.

• demoing

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese mendigo, from Latin mendīcus.

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

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mendigo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mendigar

• “mendigo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

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

From Latin mendīcus.

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

1. beggar (person who begs for a living)

   Synonym: limosnero

mendigo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mendigar

• “mendigo”, 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