aligot

Borrowed from French aligot.

• IPA^(key): /æ.li.ɡoʊ/, /ɑ.li.ɡoʊ/

aligot (uncountable)

1. A dish traditionally made in the south of Auvergne from melted Tomme cheese blended into mashed potatoes, often with garlic.
   • 2007 January 3, Florence Fabricant, “From Banker to Baker in TriBeCa”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Now, Marie de Livinhac, a company in the Auvergne region, is making a dehydrated aligot mix that requires only crème fraîche, water and five minutes’ time.

• galiot, latigo

From àliga +‎ -ot.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.liˈɣɔt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.liˈɣɔt]
• Rhymes: -ɔt

aligot m (plural aligots)

1. buzzard
2. axillary sea bream (Pagellus acarne)

   Synonym: besuc blanc

3. aligot (a potato and cheese dish from Auvergne, France)

• àlic roig
• aligot vesper

• “aligot”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “aligot”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “aligot” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “aligot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Occitan alicouot. Etymology obscure; possibly from Latin aliquid.

Alternative theory derives it from Old French harigoter (“to rip to shreds”), from Frankish *harjōn, from Proto-Germanic *harjōną (“to attack with an army”).

• IPA^(key): /a.li.ɡo/

aligot m (plural aligots)

1. aligot (a potato and cheese dish from Auvergne)

Unadapted borrowing from French aligot.

aligot m (uncountable)

1. aligot (a potato and cheese dish from Auvergne)

Unadapted borrowing from French aligot.

• IPA^(key): /aliˈɡo/ [a.liˈɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -o

aligot m (uncountable)

1. aligot (a potato and cheese dish from Auvergne)

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