Etymology

mendigo

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Today it means: A beggar. Full definition →

Spanish mendigo ← Old Spanish mendigo ← Latin mendīcus
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The story

  1. Latinmenda
  2. Latinmendīcus
  3. Old Spanishmendigo
  4. Spanishmendigo
  5. English todaymendigo

Borrowed from Spanish mendigo.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.