Noun: aligátor
Gender: m
Hyphenation: a‧li‧gá‧tor
| Singular m | aligátor |
| Plural m | aligátores; aligátors |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like aligátor
sapajú,
samohú,
sirirí,
sipapú,
shampú,
quiquiriquí,
belcebú,
xaminí,
ñangapirí,
yerutí,
diyiridú,
baguarí,
pedigrí,
yaimiquí,
zurubí,
popurrí,
yaguarundí,
sarandí,
bisturí,
salsifí, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Likely borrowed from French alligator, from English alligator, which in turn came from Spanish el lagarto (“the lizard”). The shift to penultimate stress is likely borrowed from the English pronunciation of the term, which displaced the original pronunciation of aligator. See: French Nouns '
alligator', English Nouns '
alligator'.
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