lagar

Unknown: from Old Galician-Portuguese lagar, possibly from a Vulgar Latin *lacālis, from Latin lacus (“lake; vat”). Compare Portuguese lagar and Spanish lagar.

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: la‧gar

lagar m (plural lagares)

1. a vat in which grapes or apples are pressed for the production of wine or cider
2. building or construction which contains this vat
   • 1273, Miguel Romaní (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). 3 vols. Santiago: Tórculo Edicións (1989, 1989, 1993), page 387:

     vendemus et outorgamus uno tallo de herdade, o qual esta marcado per marcos ontre a casa de Pedro Perez et o lagar que esta ante o celeyro de Fernan Ares

     We sell and give a patch of land which is delimited by boundary stones in between the house of Pedro Pérez and the wine press before the granary of Fernán Ares

• Lagar
• Lagares
• lagareta

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “lagar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “lagar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lagar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “lagar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lagar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

lagar

1. playing card
2. card game

Derived from lag (“weak”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̪ˠaɡəɾˠ/

lagar m (genitive singular lagair, nominative plural lagracha)

1. (uncountable) weakness, faintness

   Synonym: laige

2. (countable) fainting spell, swoon

   Thit siad i lagar.

   They fell into a swoon.

• dúlagar (“depression”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “lagar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

lagar

1. present of laga

lagar

1. genitive singular of lǫgr

• Hyphenation: la‧gar

Adapted borrowing of English lag +‎ -ar.

lagar (first-person singular present lago, first-person singular preterite laguei, past participle lagado)

1. (intransitive, video games) to lag; to experience latency or a poor internet connection

Unknown.^[1] Possibly from lago or from a Vulgar Latin *lacālis, from Latin lacus.^[2]

lagar m (plural lagares)

1. a vat in which olives and grapes are pressed
   • 2001, Bíblia Sagrada, Nova Versão Internacional, Biblica, Hosea 9:2:

     Os produtos da eira e do lagar não alimentarão o povo; o vinho novo lhes faltará.

     The products from the threshing floor and from the pressing vat won’t feed the people; they will lack the new wine.

• lagariço (diminutive)

• prensa

From lago. Compare Portuguese and Galician lagar.

• IPA^(key): /laˈɡaɾ/ [laˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: la‧gar

lagar m (plural lagares)

1. a vat in which olives, grapes or apples are pressed

   Synonym: jaraíz

• “lagar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

lagar

1. romanization of 𒇬 (lagar)

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lagar

1. indefinite plural of lag

lagar

1. present indicative of laga

• lagra, ragla