magro

See also: Magro

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese magro, magre (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin macrum, accusative singular of macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɡɾo/ [ˈmɑ.ɣ̞ɾʊ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈmaɡɾo/ [ˈmɑ.ɣ̞ɾʊ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /ˈmaħɾo/ [ˈmɑ.ħɾʊ]

 

• Rhymes: -aɡɾo

• Rhymes: -aɡɾo
• Rhymes: -aħɾo

• Hyphenation: ma‧gro

Adjective

magro (feminine magra, masculine plural magros, feminine plural magras)

1. thin, lean, slim, skinny

   Antonyms: gordo, groso

   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 61:

     deuen saber que o Cauallo para mellor seer non deue seer moi groso nen moy magro, mais antre anbos

     you must know that the horse, for being at its best, must not be too fat nor too lean, but in-between

2. (of food) low-fat, lean
3. meagre, poor, scarce

   Synonym: pobre

Noun

magro m (plural magros)

1. (cooking) lean, lean meat

   Synonym: freba

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “magro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “magro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “magro”, 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), “magro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “magro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Etymology

From Latin macrum, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɡro/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aɡro
• Hyphenation: mà‧gro

Adjective

magro (feminine magra, masculine plural magri, feminine plural magre, superlative magrissimo)

1. thin, lean, slim, spare

   Synonyms: asciutto, sottile

   Antonym: grasso

2. low-fat, lean (of food)

   Antonym: grasso

3. meagre, poor, scarce, puny

   Synonyms: povero, scarso

   Antonym: grasso

   magra consolazione ― cold comfort (literally, “meagre comfort”)

Noun

magro m (plural magri)

1. lean part
2. lean, lean meat (of meat)

Related terms

• dimagrire
• magra
• magramente
• magrezza
• magrolino
• smagrire

Anagrams

• gramo, groma

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese magro, from Latin macrum, from Proto-Italic *makros, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós, from *meh₂ḱ- + *-rós.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɡɾu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɡɾu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɡɾo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɡɾu/ [ˈma.ɣɾu]

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɡɾu
• Hyphenation: ma‧gro

Adjective

magro (feminine magra, masculine plural magros, feminine plural magras, comparable, comparative mais magro, superlative o mais magro or magríssimo or macérrimo or (sometimes proscribed) magérrimo, diminutive magrinho)

1. thin (having little fat)

   Antonym: gordo

   1. of meat, lean
   2. (Portugal) of milk, skimmed

      Synonym: (Brazil) desnatado

      Coordinate terms: integral, gordo, meio-gordo; (Brazil) inteiro, (Brazil) semidesnatado

      leite magro ― skimmed milk

Derived terms

• enmagrecer
• magramente
• magrão
• magrelo
• magrete
• magreza
• magriço
  • magricela
• magrinho
• magriz
  • magrizela

Further reading

• “magro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “magro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “magro”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “magro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin macrum, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Cognate with English meager / meagre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɡɾo/ [ˈma.ɣ̞ɾo]

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɡɾo
• Syllabification: ma‧gro

Adjective

magro (feminine magra, masculine plural magros, feminine plural magras)

1. lean, without fat
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 44:

     Un viejecillo pequeño y magro.

     A skinny little old man

Derived terms

• enmagrecer

Noun

magro m (plural magros)

1. loin of pork

Related terms

• magra
• magrear

Further reading

• “magro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025