serviço

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Galician

Noun

serviço m (plural serviços, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of servizo

References

  • “serviço” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese serviço, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin servitium (“slavery; servitude”) (compare Italian servizio, French service, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus (“serf”). By surface analysis, servo +‎ -iço.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: ser‧vi‧ço

Noun

serviço m (plural serviços)

  1. (economics) service (work that is produced, traded, sold, then consumed)
  2. work; labour
    Synonyms: emprego, labor, lavor, trabalho
  3. job; a task
    Synonyms: tarefa, trabalho
  4. workplace
  5. the way a commercial establishment serves the costumers
    Synonym: atendimento
  6. (religion) service (religious rite or ritual)
    Synonyms: rito, ritual
  7. (sports) service
    Synonym: saque

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Hunsrik: Sërviss
  • Macanese: siviço

Further reading

  • “serviço” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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