cazón

Galician

Cazón

Alternative forms

• caçom, cação (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese caçon, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *cattiō from cattus (“cat”), given that many of these sharks are named catfish or dogfish in a number of languages. Compare Portuguese cação, Catalan cassó, Sicilian cazzuni.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈθoŋ/, (western) /kaˈsoŋ/

Noun

cazón m (plural cazóns)

1. school shark (Galeorhinus galeus)

   Synonyms: can do mar, tollo

References

• “caçon” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “caçon” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cazón” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cazón” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cazón” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Etymology

From cazar +‎ -ón.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kaˈθon/ [kaˈθõn]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /kaˈson/ [kaˈsõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: ca‧zón
• Homophone: cazo

Noun

cazón m (plural cazones)

1. dogfish, tope

Further reading

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