aligot

English

Aligot

Etymology

Borrowed from French aligot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ.li.ɡoʊ/, /ɑ.li.ɡoʊ/

Noun

aligot (uncountable)

1. A dish traditionally made in the south of Auvergne from melted Tomme cheese blended into mashed potatoes, often with garlic.
   • 2007 January 3, Florence Fabricant, “From Banker to Baker in TriBeCa”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Now, Marie de Livinhac, a company in the Auvergne region, is making a dehydrated aligot mix that requires only crème fraîche, water and five minutes’ time.

Translations

a potato and cheese dish from Auvergne

• Arabic: أليغو
• Catalan: aligot (ca) m
• French: aligot (fr) m
• Indonesian: aligot
• Japanese: アリゴ (arigo)
• Korean: 알리고 (alligo)
• Norwegian: aligot
• Occitan: aligòt m
• Portuguese: aligot m
• Spanish: aligot m
• Swedish: aligot c
• Vietnamese: aligot

Anagrams

• galiot, latigo

Catalan

Etymology

From àliga +‎ -ot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ə.liˈɣo̞t]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [ə.liˈɣɔt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [a.liˈɣɔt]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

aligot m (plural aligots)

1. buzzard
2. axillary sea bream (Pagellus acarne)

   Synonym: besuc blanc

3. aligot (a potato and cheese dish from Auvergne, France)

Derived terms

• àlic roig
• aligot vesper

Further reading

• “aligot”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “aligot”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “aligot” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “aligot”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan alicouot. Etymology obscure; possibly from Latin aliquid.

Alternative theory derives it from Old French harigoter (“to rip to shreds”), from Frankish *harjōn, from Proto-Germanic *harjōną (“to attack with an army”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.li.ɡo/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

aligot m (plural aligots)

1. aligot (a potato and cheese dish from Auvergne)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French aligot.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.liˈɡo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.liˈɡo/ [ɐ.liˈɣo]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.liˈɡo/ [ɐ.liˈɣo]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.liˈɡo/

Noun

aligot m (uncountable)

1. aligot (a potato and cheese dish from Auvergne)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French aligot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aliˈɡo/ [a.liˈɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -o

Noun

aligot m (uncountable)

1. aligot (a potato and cheese dish from Auvergne)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.