garçom

Portuguese

Alternative forms

garção (dated)
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

Rhymes: -õ

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡaʁˈsõ/ [ɡahˈsõ]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ɡaɾˈsõ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ɡaʁˈsõ/ [ɡaχˈsõ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡaɻˈsõ/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡaɾˈsõ/

Hyphenation: gar‧çom

Noun

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

(Brazil) waiter (a server in a restaurant or similar)
Synonyms: empregado de mesa, (Brazil) copeiro

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