lagarto

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old 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

lagarto m (feminine singular lagarta, masculine plural lagartos, feminine plural lagartas)

1. (figuratively) unreliable; mischievous

Derived terms

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

References

• “lagart” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2016.
• “lagarto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “lagarto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “lagarto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

---

Portuguese

lagarto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

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

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

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /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

---

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