margarita

From Spanish.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmɑː.ɡəɹˈiː.tə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmɑɹ.ɡəˈɹi.tə/

margarita (plural margaritas)

1. A cocktail made with tequila, an orange-flavoured liqueur, and lemon or lime juice, often served with salt encrusted on the rim of the glass.

• IPA^(key): /mar.ɡaˈri.ta/, [mär̺ɡäˈr̺iːt̪ä]
• Stress: margarìta
• Hyphenation: mar‧ga‧ri‧ta

From Latin margarīta, from Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs), from a loanword of Eastern origin.

margarita f (plural margarite)

1. Archaic form of margherita.
   • 1307, Dante Alighieri, Convivio, R. Ricciardi (1995), Capitolo XXX, p. 884:

     [...] sì come dice nostro Signore, non si deono le margarite gittare innanzi a li porci, [...]

     [...] as our Lord says, pearls are not to be given to pigs, [...]

Borrowed from Spanish margarita, from Latin margarīta.

margarita m

1. margarita (cocktail)

• margarītum

From Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mar.ɡaˈriː.ta/

margarīta f (genitive margarītae); first declension

1. pearl
   • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Apocalypsis 21:21

     et duodecim portae duodecim margaritae sunt per singulas et singulae portae erant ex singulis margaritis […]

     And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: […]

2. a term of endearment

First declension.

• (pearl): perula (Medieval Latin)

• margarītārius
• margarītātus
• margarītifer

• margarītion
• margarītum

• English: margarita
• Italian: margherita
• Old English: meregrot
• Old High German: merigrioz
• Old Saxon: merigrita, merigriota
• Spanish: margarita

• margarita in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• margarita in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• margarita in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• margarita in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

From Latin margarīta, from Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs).

• IPA^(key): /marɡaˈɾita/, [marɣaˈɾit̪a]

margarita f (plural margaritas)

1. (flower) daisy

   Synonyms: margarita común, chiribita

2. margarita (cocktail)
3. pearl

   Synonym: perla

• “margarita” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Borrowed from Spanish margarita (“daisy”)

• bignay

• Hyphenation: mar‧ga‧ri‧ta

margarita

1. A daisy, especially the oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)