lagartixa

• lagartixha (Lagarteiru, Mañegu)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lagartixa, borrowed from Old Spanish lagartixa, from lagarto + -ixo.

• IPA^(key): /laɡaɾˈtiʃa/
• Rhymes: -iʃa
• Syllabification: la‧gar‧ti‧xa

lagartixa f (plural lagartixas)

1. (Valverdeñu) Iberian wall lizard (Podarcis hispanicus)

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lagartixa, borrowed from Old Spanish lagartixa, from lagarto + -ixo.

• Rhymes: -iʃa
• Hyphenation: la‧gar‧ti‧xa

lagartixa f (plural lagartixas)

1. a small lizard

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lagartixa”, 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), “lagartixa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lagartixa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from Old Spanish lagartixa, from lagarto + -ixo.

*lagartixa f (plural lagartixas)

1. (hapax legomenon) a small lizard
   • 1420, Álvaro Eans das Eiras, transl., Tratado de Albeitaria, translation of De Medicina Equorum by Giordano Ruffo, page 135:

     Deuese prjmeiramente rraer toda a chaga darredor et toma depois tres cabeças de llagartixas pisadas ia quanto llegaas sobre lla chaga.

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• Fala: lagartixa, lagartixha (Lagarteiru, Mañegu)
• Galician: lagartixa
• Portuguese: lagartixa (see there for further descendants)

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “lagartixa”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From lagarto +‎ -ixa.

lagartixa f (plural lagartixas)

1. a small lizard
   • 1490, Alfonso de Palencia, “Offiomace”, in Universal vocabulario en latin y en Romance, book 2 (overall work in Latin and Old Spanish), Sevilla: Paulo de Colonia, page 322V, column 2:

     por lagartixa como offis poꝛ coluebꝛa. ⁊ aſſi ſe diʒẽ offite vnos hereies que tomarõ nõbꝛe de colebꝛa. los quales diʒiã q̃ la ſerpiẽnte en el parayſo ĩtroduxera el cognoſcimiẽto dla vtud

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• Spanish: lagartija
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: lagartixa
  • Fala: lagartixa, lagartixha (Lagarteiru, Mañegu)
  • Galician: lagartixa
  • Portuguese: lagartixa (see there for further descendants)

• largatixa (eye dialect)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lagartixa, borrowed from Old Spanish lagartixa, from lagarto + -ixo.

• Rhymes: -iʃɐ
• Hyphenation: la‧gar‧ti‧xa

lagartixa f (plural lagartixas)

1. a small lizard

   Synonym: (Brazil) calango

2. (chiefly Brazil) any small, wall-crawling lizard species, such as a house lizard
3. (Brazil, derogatory) an ugly skinny person, especially a woman

• → Hunsrik: Lagartisch

• “lagartixa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “lagartixa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025