Saragoça
Old Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic سَرَقُسْطَة (saraqusṭa) (apparently with metathesis), from Latin Caesaraugusta.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Saragoça f
- Zaragoza (the capital city of the modern autonomous community of Aragon, Spain)
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 2v:
- Et ffallan la otroſſi en eſpanna en unos montes q ſõ çerca de Saragoça en un logar q̃ dizen diche. Et otroſſi en el monte q̃ es cabo granada aq̃ llaman ſoler en unas cueuas q̃ y a. Pero tan bien las de ſaragoça como las de granada ſon pocas.
- And they find another in Spain in some hills near Zaragoza, in a place they calle Diche. Yet another is found in a hill that is around Granada, which they call Soler, in some caves that are near there. But those from Zaragoza, as well as those from Granada, are few.
Descendants edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese Saragoça, from Old Spanish Saragoça, from Andalusian Arabic سَرَقُسْطَة (saraqusṭa), from Latin Caesaraugusta.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: Sa‧ra‧go‧ça
Proper noun edit
Saragoça f