freguês

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === freguez (obsolete) === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese feegres, from Vulgar Latin fīl(ius) ecclēsiae (“son of the church”). Cognate with Galician fregués and Spanish feligrés. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: (Brazil) -es, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -eʃ Hyphenation: fre‧guês === Noun === freguês m (plural fregueses, feminine freguesa, feminine plural freguesas) regular (frequent customer, client or business partner) customer (one who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so) Synonym: cliente (Brazil, sports, derogatory) sports team that often loses to a particular opponent, or member of such team (Portugal) parishioner (citizen or inhabitant of an administrative parish of Portugal) ==== Derived terms ==== afreguesar freguesia === Further reading === “freguês”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “freguês”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026