lagosta

Galician

Lagostas or langostras (Palinurus elephas), Galicia

Alternative forms

• lagostra, langosta, langostra

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /laˈɡosta/ [lɑˈɣ̞os̺.t̪ɐ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /laˈɡosta/ [lɑˈɣ̞os̺.t̪ɐ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /laˈħosta/ [lɑˈħos̺.t̪ɐ]

• Rhymes: -osta
• Hyphenation: la‧gos‧ta

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

• Langosteira

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “lagosta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “lagosta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lagosta”, 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, editor (2006–2013), “langosta”, 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, editor (2006–2013), “lagostra”, 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), “lagosta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lagosta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “lagosta”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “lagosta” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Portuguese

Lagosta

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /laˈɡos.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /laˈɡos.tɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /laˈɡoʃ.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /laˈɡos.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɐˈɡoʃ.tɐ/ [lɐˈɣoʃ.tɐ]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ostɐ, (Portugal) -oʃtɐ

Noun

lagosta f (plural lagostas)

1. lobster

Derived terms

• lagosta-americana
• lagosta-da-mauritânia
• lagosta-da-pedra
• lagosta-gafanhoto
• lagostim
• lagostinha

Further reading

• “lagosta”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “lagosta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈɡosta/ [laˈɣ̞os.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -osta
• Syllabification: la‧gos‧ta

Noun

lagosta f (plural lagostas)

1. (obsolete) locust, lobster

   Synonym: langosta

Further reading

• “lagosta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10