garçom

Portuguese

Alternative forms

garção (obsolete)
garçon

Etymology

From French garçon (“waiter; boy”), from Middle French, from Old French garçun (“servant”, oblique case of gars), from Frankish *warkjon, wrakjon (“servant, boy”, oblique case of *warkjo, wrakjo), from Proto-Germanic *wrakjô (“exile, driven one”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“to drive”)

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡaʁ.ˈsõ/

Noun

garçom m (plural garçons, feminine garçonete, feminine plural garçonetes)

waiter (a server in a restaurant or similar)

Synonyms

copeiro, empregado de mesa

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