jagonce
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unknown, from Italian giargone or directly from Arabic زَرْقُون (zarqūn) via Crusades loot, and influenced in French by forms of jacincte (“jacinth”), or vice versa, probably mixed up after hearsay.
Noun edit
jagonce oblique singular, f (oblique plural jagonces, nominative singular jagonce, nominative plural jagonces)
References edit
- Nykl, Alois Richard (1920) “Old Spanish Girgonça”, in Modern Philology, volume 18, number 6, pages 141–144