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1 latigo
( látigo [látigo], a term of uncertain origin, common to Spanish and Portuguese; given that the oldest meaning is 'strap used for tying something,' it is probable that the term derives from Gothic * laittug, which would also be related to the Anglo-Saxon látteh 'halter rope')1) Clark: 1880s. A piece of leather three to five feet long and two inches wide used to fasten the cinch onto the saddle. One end is fastened to the cinch ring on the saddle and the other passed through the ring on the end of the cinch and the saddle ring and secured with a knot once the desired adjustment is obtained.Alternate forms: ladigo, largo, larigo, latigo strap.The form larigo is a spelling pronunciation; English speakers seeing the term in its written form would have pronounced the intervocalic {t} (or {d}) in the first variant form as a flap, which is how an intervocalic {r} in Spanish is pronounced. Largo is a later term that evolved from larigo via schwa deletion. Bentley notes that largo is extremely common today on ranches where a western-style saddle is employed.2) Hendrickson indicates that the term also refers to a rawhide thong that secures a gun holster to the leg. The DRAE glosses it either as a long, thin, flexible whip made from rope, leather, baleen, or another material used principally to discipline horses, or as a cord or strap used to secure and adjust the cinch of a saddle.See chicote
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látigo — (Probablemente del germ. laittug, correa para conducir.) ► sustantivo masculino 1 Tira de cuero u otro material flexible, fina, alargada y con mango, usada para avivar, azotar o castigar, principalmente a las caballerías y a otros animales: ■ el… … Enciclopedia Universal
latigo — /lat i goh /, n., pl. latigos, latigoes. n. a leather strap on the saddletree of a Western saddle used to tighten and secure the cinch. [1870 75, Amer.; < Sp látigo whip, cinch strap, perh. < Goth *laittug; cf. OE latteh leading rein, equiv. to… … Universalium
