magro

From Old Galician-Portuguese magro, magre (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin macrum, accusative singular of macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaɣɾʊ]

magro (feminine magra, masculine plural magros, feminine plural magras)

1. thin, lean, slim, skinny

   Antonyms: gordo, groso

   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 61:

     deuen saber que o Cauallo para mellor seer non deue seer moi groso nen moy magro, mais antre anbos

     you must know that the horse, for being at its best, must not be too fat nor too lean, but in-between

2. (of food) low-fat, lean
3. meagre, poor, scarce

   Synonym: pobre

magro m (plural magros)

1. (cooking) lean, lean meat

   Synonym: freba

• “magro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “magr” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “magro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “magro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “magro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin macrum, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɡro/

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• Rhymes: -aɡro
• Hyphenation: mà‧gro

magro (feminine magra, masculine plural magri, feminine plural magre, superlative magrissimo)

1. thin, lean, slim, spare

   Synonyms: asciutto, sottile

   Antonym: grasso

2. low-fat, lean (of food)

   Antonym: grasso

3. meagre, poor, scarce, puny

   Synonyms: povero, scarso

   Antonym: grasso

magro m (plural magri)

1. lean part
2. lean, lean meat (of meat)

• gramo, groma

From Old Galician-Portuguese magro, magre, from Latin macrum, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós.

• Rhymes: -aɡɾu
• Hyphenation: ma‧gro

magro (feminine magra, masculine plural magros, feminine plural magras)

1. lean (of meat, having little fat), thin

   Antonym: gordo

2. (Portugal) skimmed (of milk)

   Synonym: (Brazil) desnatado

   Antonym: gordo

• magrinho

Inherited from Latin macrum, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Cognate with English meager/meagre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɡɾo/ [ˈma.ɣ̞ɾo]
• Rhymes: -aɡɾo
• Syllabification: ma‧gro

magro (feminine magra, masculine plural magros, feminine plural magras)

1. lean, without fat

magro m (plural magros)

1. loin of pork

• “magro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014