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Galician
Noun
serviço m (plural serviços, reintegrationist norm)
- 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
Noun
serviço m (plural serviços)
- (economics) service (work that is produced, traded, sold, then consumed)
- work; labour
- Synonyms: emprego, labor, lavor, trabalho
- job; a task
- Synonyms: tarefa, trabalho
- workplace
- the way a commercial establishment serves the costumers
- Synonym: atendimento
- (religion) service (religious rite or ritual)
- Synonyms: rito, ritual
- (sports) service
- Synonym: saque
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “serviço” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913