mendigo
See also: mendigó
English
Noun
mendigo (plural mendigos)
- 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.
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Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese mendigo, from Latin mendīcus.
Pronunciation
Spanish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iɣo
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