lavagante

Meaning

lobster (crustacean of the superfamilies Nephropoidea and Enoplometopoidea)

Concepts

lobsters

Homarus

genus Homarus

Synonyms

Lavagante

Translations

homard

🦞

bogavante

سرطانات البحر

Hummer

🦞

aragoste

Langosta del atlántico

Langosta del norte

genus homarus

Bogavante americano

homarus

homarus

Pronounced as (IPA)

/la.vaˈɡɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

Etymology

Cognate with Spanish: lobagante

Cognate with Latin: *lucopante

Cognate with Ancient Greek: λυκοπάνθηρος

In summary

Uncertain, possibly from Latin *lucopante, from Ancient Greek λυκοπάνθηρος (lukopánthēros, “snow leopard”). Compare Spanish lobagante (“lobster”)