bagre

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bagre

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From Latin pargus, from Ancient Greek φάγρος (phágros).

bagre m (plural bagres)

1. catfish (type of fish)

   Synonyms: peixe-gato, siluro

2. (botany) Ellipsis of mirindiba-bagre (Lafoensia glyptocarpa).
3. (Brazil) a hillbilly, yokel, rustic

   Synonyms: caipira, jacu, jeca

• cabeça-de-bagre

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bagre

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Of unclear immediate origin, perhaps from Mozarabic, ultimately from Latin pagrus~phager, of Greek origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɡɾe/ [ˈba.ɣ̞ɾe]
• Rhymes: -aɡɾe
• Syllabification: ba‧gre

bagre m (plural bagres)

1. (zoology) catfish

   Synonyms: pez gato, siluro

   Hypernym: siluriforme

2. (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Honduras) ugly person

• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: bögre

• “bagre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “bagre”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 456