# correo
## Galician
### Etymology 1

Unknown. Attested since the 13th century, and so probably unrelated to the following etymology.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [koˈreʊ]

#### Noun

correo m (plural correos)
* (archaic) money bag
** 1291, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 75:Et esta carta leuda o dito Pedro Peres mostrou hun correo con dineiros et disso frontando a Pedro Rodriguez que entregasse de todalas cousas que filaran ao bispoAnd after reading this letter said Pedro Pérez showed a bag with money, and said, confronting Pedro Rodríguez, that he should return everything that he has taken from the bishop
** 1455, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 315:Médea dusia de colleres de buxo, que acharon en un correo pechado, et mays acharon eno dito correo noue mrs en rayás et triinta mrs en coroados vellos.Half a dozen boxwood spoons, that they found inside a locked money bag, and they also found inside said money bag nine maravedis in royals and thirty maravedis in old crowns

### Etymology 2

From Spanish correo, from Catalan correu, ultimately from Old French corlieu.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [koˈreʊ]

#### Noun

correo m (plural correos)
* mail
* messenger, courier

### References

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “correo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “correo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “correo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “correo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “correo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin correus, derived from con- (“with”) +‎ reus (“accused, defendant”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /korˈrɛ.o/, (traditional) /ˈkɔr.re.o/
* Rhymes: -ɛo, (traditional) -ɔrreo
* Hyphenation: cor‧rè‧o, (traditional) còr‧re‧o

### Noun

correo m (plural correi, feminine correa)
* (law) accomplice
    Synonyms: complice, corresponsabile

#### Related terms

* reo

### References

* ↑ correo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Further reading

* correo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Noun

correō
* dative/ablative singular of correus

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan correu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈreo/ [koˈre.o]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -eo
* Syllabification: co‧rre‧o

### Noun

correo m (plural correos)
* mail
* (also in the plural) post office

#### Derived terms

* ambulancia de correos
* correo aéreo
* correo basura
* correo de gabinete
* correo de superficie
* correo electrónico
* correo postal
* lista de correo
* lista de correos

#### Related terms

* correos
* correr

#### Descendants

* >? Portuguese: correio

### Further reading

* “correo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10