lagarto

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *lacartus, from Latin lacertus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈɣaɾto̝/

Noun

lagarto m (plural lagartos)

1. lizard
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), "Tratado de Albeitaria". Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 101:

     Contra a door que chama "llaçerto", que quer dizer lagarto ...

     Against the illness that they call "lacerto", which means lizard ...

2. (cooking) pork sirloin

Adjective

1. (figurative) unreliable; mischievous

Derived terms

• herba do lagarto
• lagarteira
• lagarteiro
• lagartixa
• lagarto arnal

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “lagart”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lagarto”, 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), “lagarto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lagarto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Portuguese

lagarto

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese lagarto, from Vulgar Latin *lacartus, from Latin lacertus (“lizard”), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /laˈɡaʁ.tu/ [laˈɡah.tu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /laˈɡaʁ.tu/ [laˈɡah.tu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /laˈɡaɾ.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /laˈɡaʁ.tu/ [laˈɡaχ.tu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /laˈɡaɻ.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɐˈɡaɾ.tu/ [lɐˈɣaɾ.tu]

• Hyphenation: la‧gar‧to

Noun

lagarto m (plural lagartos)

1. lizard (any reptile of the order Squamata other than snakes)
2. (Portugal, soccer, derogatory) a supporter, player or coach of Sporting Clube de Portugal

   Synonym: sportinguista

Derived terms

• lagartear

Related terms

• lagarta
• lagartixa

Descendants

• Hunsrik: Lagart

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Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *lacartus, from Latin lacertus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈɡaɾto/ [laˈɣ̞aɾ.t̪o]
• Hyphenation: la‧gar‧to

Noun

lagarto m (plural lagartos)

1. lizard
2. (Cuba, slang) beer

Derived terms

• lagartón

Related terms

• lagarta
• lagartija

Descendants

• ⇒ English: alligator

Further reading

• “lagarto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014