sagro

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɡro/
• Rhymes: -aɡro
• Hyphenation: sà‧gro

Etymology 1

Alternative form of sacro (“saker falcon”).

Noun

sagro m (plural sagri)

1. Alternative form of sacro
   1. saker, Saker falcon
      • late 13^th century [1260–1267], “Dei falconi [On falcons]” (chapter 12), in anonymous translator, Il tesoro [The treasure], translation of Livres dou Tresor by Brunetto Latini (in Old French); collected in Luigi Gaiter, editor, Il tesoro‎^[1], volume 2, Bologna: Romagnoli, 1877, page 159:

        Lo sesto lignaggio è lo sagro. E quelli sono molto grandi, e somiglianti all’aquila bianca; ma degli occhi e del becco e dell’ale e dell’orgoglio sono somiglianti al girfalco, ma trovansene pochi.

        [original: La sisisme ligne est sourpoins. Cist est molt grans, et resemble aigle blanche, mais des oilz et des eles et dou bec est il semblables au girfaut, jà soit ce que je n’aie home trové qui le veist onques.]

        The sixth kind [of falcon] is the saker. Those are very large, and resemble white eagles; but in their eyes, their beaks, their wings, and their pride, they resemble the gyrfalcon, but few can be found.

   2. (historical) saker (cannon)

Further reading

• sagro² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

From Latin sacrum (“sacred, holy”).

Adjective

sagro (feminine sagra, masculine plural sagri, feminine plural sagre) (archaic)

1. Alternative form of sacro (“sacred”)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

sagro

1. first-person singular present indicative of sagrare

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɡɾu/

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

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

• Hyphenation: sa‧gro
• Rhymes: -aɡɾu

Verb

sagro

1. first-person singular present indicative of sagrar