Other forms: concierges
A concierge is the hotel professional who arranges things for guests. Ask the concierge, the concierge desk, a hotel concierge.
The job is fixing problems: tables, tickets, taxis, and whatever else a guest needs at short notice. In France, a concierge is also the caretaker of an apartment building, which is the older sense. Concierge medicine and concierge services have borrowed the word for any personalised paid service. Note the pronunciation, con-see-AIRZH, and that the plural is concierges.
1nounconciergeThe hotel professional who arranges things for guests.
“The concierge booked us tickets for the show and called a taxi.”
concierge is a hotel worker.
French concierge probably comes from Latin conservus, a fellow servant. The word covered the keeper of a castle or a prison before it became the person at the hotel desk, which is a considerable rise in standing.
Proto-Indo-European
*ser-
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱóm — beside, by; near; with
Latin
cōnservus — fellow servant; fellow slave
Vulgar Latin
*cōnservius
Medieval Latin
consergius
Old French
conciarge
French
concierge — caretaker; doorkeeper; lodge-keeper of a château
English, today
concierge
Built 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- (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).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA