margarita

From Spanish margarita. Doublet of Margaret (and various forms, q.v.), margarite, Margherita, and marguerite.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmɑː.ɡəˈɹiː.tə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌmɑɹ.ɡəˈɹi.tə/
• Rhymes: -iːtə

margarita (plural margaritas)

1. A cocktail made with tequila, an orange-flavoured liqueur, and lemon or lime juice, often served with salt encrusted on the rim of the glass.

• marg (colloquial)

• margarine

• IPA^(key): /mar.ɡaˈri.ta/
• Rhymes: -ita
• Hyphenation: mar‧ga‧rì‧ta

From Latin margarīta, from Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs), from a loanword of Eastern origin.

margarita f (plural margarite)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of margherita
   • 1307, Dante Alighieri, Convivio, R. Ricciardi (1995), Capitolo XXX, p. 884:

     [...] sì come dice nostro Signore, non si deono le margarite gittare innanzi a li porci, [...]

     [...] as our Lord says, pearls are not to be given to pigs, [...]

Borrowed from Spanish margarita, from Latin margarīta.

margarita m

1. margarita (cocktail)

• margarītum

From Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /mar.ɡaˈriː.ta/, [märɡäˈriːt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mar.ɡaˈri.ta/, [märɡäˈriːt̪ä]

margarīta f (genitive margarītae); first declension

1. pearl
   • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Apocalypsis [Revelation] 21:21:

     Et duodecim portae duodecim margaritae sunt per singulas et singulae portae erant ex singulis margaritis […]

     And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: […]

2. a term of endearment

First-declension noun.

• (pearl): perula (Medieval Latin)

• margarītārius
• margarītātus
• margarītifer

• margarītion
• margarītum

• French: marguerite
  • → English: marguerite
  • → Slovak: margaréta
• Italian: margherita, margarita
• Old French: meregrot
  • → Middle English: margaret
• Portuguese: margarida
• Spanish: margarita
  • → English: margarita
  • → Italian: margarita
  • → Tagalog: margarita
• → Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌿𐍃 (marikreitus)
• → Proto-West Germanic: *marigreutō (see there for further descendants)

Margarita, Margareta:

• Catalan: Margarida
• Galician: Margarida
• Italian: Margherita
  • → English: Margherita, margherita
• Old French: Margaret
  • French: Marguerite
    • → English: Marguerite
  • Norman: Marguerite
  • → English: Margaret
• Portuguese: Margarida
• Spanish: Margarita
  • → English: Margarita
• → English: Margarita
• → German: Margarete, Margarethe
• → Latvian: Margarita
• → Norwegian: Margareta
• → Slovak: Margaréta
• → Swedish: Margareta, Margaretha

• “margarita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “margarita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• margarita in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• margarita in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Latin margarīta, from Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs).

• IPA^(key): /maɾɡaˈɾita/ [maɾ.ɣ̞aˈɾi.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: mar‧ga‧ri‧ta

margarita f (plural margaritas)

1. (flower) daisy

   Synonyms: margarita común, chiribita

2. pearl

   Synonym: perla

• → Tagalog: margarita

margarita m (plural margaritas)

1. margarita (cocktail)

• → English: margarita
• → Italian: margarita

• “margarita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

margarita c

1. margarita (cocktail)

Borrowed from Spanish margarita (“daisy”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /maɾɡaˈɾita/ [mɐɾ.ɡɐˈɾiː.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: mar‧ga‧ri‧ta

margarita (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜇ᜔ᜄᜇᜒᜆ) (botany)

1. Clerodendrum calamitosum