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.

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Portuguese

lagarto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɐ.ˈɣaɾ.tu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /la.ˈɡaʁ.tu/
• Hyphenation: la‧gar‧to

Noun

lagarto m (plural lagartos)

1. lizard (any reptile of the order Squamata other than snakes)

Derived terms

• lagartear

Related terms

• lagarta
• lagartixa

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Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *lacartus, from Latin lacertus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈɡarto/, [laˈɣart̪o]

Noun

lagarto m (plural lagartos)

1. lizard

Related terms

• lagartija

Descendants

• Dutch: alligator
• English: alligator