serviço

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese serviço, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin servitium (slavery; servitude) (compare Italian servizio, French service, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus (serf), probably from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

  • (Paulista) IPA(key): /seɹ.ˈvi.su/
  • (South Brazil) IPA(key): /seɻ.ˈvi.so/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /sɨɾ.ˈvi.su/
  • Hyphenation: ser‧vi‧ço

Noun

serviço m (plural serviços)

  1. (economics) service (work that is produced, traded, sold, then consumed)
  2. work; labour
  3. job; a task
  4. workplace
  5. the way a commercial establishment serves the costumers
  6. (religion) service (religious rite or ritual)

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Derived terms

Descendants

  • Hunsrik: Sërviss

Further reading

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