Where does “aligator” come from?
aligator (Romanian) comes from French alligator, from English alligator, from English alligater, from Spanish lagarto, from Old Spanish lagarto, from Vulgar Latin *lacartum, from Latin lacertus, from Latin lacerta — lizard; ablative singular of lacerta.
aligator (Romanian): alligator
Ancestry of “aligator”, step by step