courier

What it means

1. A person who delivers messages.

   Synonyms: messenger

2. A company that delivers messages.
3. A company that transports goods.

In a sentence

You can always find musicians. There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined.

1999, Adrian Dunn, “Re: Using a scanned picture in your demo”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

Where it comes from

1. Italiancorriere
2. Middle Frenchcourrier
3. Middle Englishcourier
4. Old Frenchcoreor
5. Middle Englishcorour
6. Englishcourier

From a convergence of Middle English corour, currour, from Old French coreor, agent noun of corir (“to run”), and Middle English courier, a borrowing of Middle French courrier, from Italian corriere.