bagre
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Etymology
From Latin pargus, from Ancient Greek φάγρος (phágros).
Pronunciation
Noun
bagre m (plural bagres)
- catfish (type of fish)
- Synonyms: peixe-gato, siluro
- (botany) Ellipsis of mirindiba-bagre (Lafoensia glyptocarpa).
- (Brazil) a hillbilly, yokel, rustic
Derived terms
- cabeça-de-bagre
Etymology
Of unclear immediate origin, perhaps from Mozarabic, ultimately from Latin pagrus~phager, of Greek origin.
Pronunciation
Noun
bagre m (plural bagres)
- (zoology) catfish
- Synonyms: pez gato, siluro
- Hypernym: siluriforme
- (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Honduras) ugly person
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: bögre
Further reading
- “bagre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “bagre”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 456
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