I read somewhere that it comes from Spanish "el lagarto", meaning "the lizard". (Note that the modern Spanish word for "alligator" is "caiman", with an acute accent on the second "a" that I don't know how to type in here!)
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Hailing from the 1560s, the English word alligator comes to us from the corruption of the Spanish word el lagarto (de Indias) meaning "the lizard (of the Indies)", from the Latin word lacertus, although "alligarter" WAS an earlier variant."See you later, alligator" is from a 1957song title.
The English language words "parka" and "kayak" have no Spanish root.
An antonym is a word that means the opposite of a given word. "Hard" is an antonym of "soft." The only antonym of alligator is "not an alligator", fool!
It is Mexican/Spanish 'Ahuacatl' in Mexican which became 'aguacate' in Spanish meaning Alligator pear
The word "alligator" originated from the Spanish language in the country of Spain. It is derived from the Spanish word "el lagarto," which means "the lizard."
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The word "alligator" comes from the Spanish word "el lagarto," which means "the lizard."
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The word "alligator" is derived from the Spanish word "el lagarto," which means "the lizard."
Direct quote from Wikipedia... "The name alligator is an anglicized form of el lagarto, the Spanish term for "lizard", which early Spanish explorers and settlers in Florida called the alligator."
No, that word originated in Spanish.
Hailing from the 1560s, the English word alligator comes to us from the corruption of the Spanish word el lagarto (de Indias) meaning "the lizard (of the Indies)", from the Latin word lacertus, although "alligarter" WAS an earlier variant."See you later, alligator" is from a 1957song title.
Many English words do not have Spanish root words, such as:algebrabuttcowdirteggfatghosthairiglooJewishkhakilumpmostnextplumqueenracesiptickleupvastwitchxrayyodzoom
Alligator is el lagarto (a word for lizard) which is where English gets the word from. Crocodile is cocodrilo.(The South American name for the relatively smaller crocodilian is caiman.)
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