maragato

From Spanish maragato.

• Hyphenation: ma‧ra‧ga‧to

maragato m (uncountable)

1. (Brazil, history) supporter of the federalist movement that, in 1893, inspired the revolution against the party of Júlio de Castilhos, president of Rio Grande do Sul.
2. (Brazil, history) revolutionary who, in 1923, opposed the government of Borges de Medeiros, governor of Rio Grande do Sul.

• maragatagem
• maragatice
• maragatear
• maragatismo
• maragatada

• “maragato”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

maragato (feminine maragata, masculine plural maragatos, feminine plural maragatas)

1. of, from or relating to La Maragatería

maragato m (plural maragatos, feminine maragata, feminine plural maragatas)

1. native or inhabitant of La Maragatería (usually male)

• “maragato”, 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