lagosta

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Galician

Lagostas or langostras (Palinurus elephas), Galicia

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin lacusta, from Latin locusta, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

Noun

lagosta f (plural lagostas)

  1. lobster, especially the rock lobster (Palinurus elephas)
    • 1448, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 296:
      que lle tomara e roubara ena Portella d'Azebedo, hun capuço nouo de morilla et hua capa trabera de mescra branca et hua çinta e hun esqeiro et çen pares de brancas et hun frolín en ouro et seys congros frescos et quatro lagostas
      that they took and robbed from him, in the pass of Acevedo, a new hood of dark cloth and a cloak of white mixed clothe and a ribbon and a tindebox and a hundred pairs of brancas and a florin of gold and six fresh congers and four lobsters
  2. locust

Derived terms

References

  • “lagosta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “lagosta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “lagosta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “langosta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “lagostra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “lagosta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “lagosta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese lagosta, from Vulgar Latin lacusta, from Latin locusta, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

lagosta f (plural lagostas)

  1. lobster

See also

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin lacusta, from Latin locusta, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /laˈɡosta/
  • Rhymes: -osta
  • Syllabification: la‧gos‧ta

Noun

lagosta f (plural lagostas)

  1. (obsolete) locust, lobster
    Synonym: langosta

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