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.

• Hyphenation: ma‧gro

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “magro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “magr”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “magro”, 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), “magro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “magro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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

   magra consolazione ― cold comfort (literally, “meagre comfort”)

magro m (plural magri)

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

• gramo, groma

Inherited 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, comparable, comparative mais magro, superlative o mais magro or magríssimo or macérrimo or (sometimes proscribed) magérrimo, diminutive magrinho)

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

   Antonym: gordo

2. (Portugal) skimmed (of milk)

   Synonym: (Brazil) desnatado

   Antonym: gordo

• “magro”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “magro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “magro”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2025
• “magro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “magro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɡɾo/ [ˈma.ɣ̞ɾo]

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• Rhymes: -aɡɾo
• Syllabification: ma‧gro

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

1. lean, without fat
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 44:

     Un viejecillo pequeño y magro.

     A skinny little old man

magro m (plural magros)

1. loin of pork

• “magro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024