concierge
Meanings
noun
- An employee of a hotel who attends to the requirements and wishes of guests.
- One who offers a bespoke level of service in any of various industries.
- A nurse who provides support during fertility treatment.
- One who attends to the maintenance of a building and provides services to its tenants and visitors.
- A senior official in charge of a fortress, palace, etc.; also, a custodian of a house; a warden of a prison.
- Synonym of conciergerie (“the office of a concierge; also, the lodge or residence of a concierge”).
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Borrowed from French concierge (“caretaker; doorkeeper; lodge-keeper of a château”), from Old French conciarge, consierge, consirge, from Medieval Latin consergius; further etymology uncertain, probably from Vulgar Latin *cōnservius, from Latin cōnservus (“fellow servant; fellow slave”), from con- (prefix denoting a being or bringing together of several objects) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by; near; with”)) + servus (“servant; slave”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to guard; to take care of”) + *-wós (suffix forming adjectives from verb stems)).
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