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
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “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 Galician-Portuguese lagarto, from Vulgar Latin *lacartus, from Latin lacertus (“lizard”), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɐ.ˈɣaɾ.tu/
• 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

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

Related terms

• lagartija

Descendants

• Dutch: alligator
• English: alligator