sargaço
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Apparently from a Mozarabic *šaugaçro (via metathesis of /r/ and loss of /w/), from Latin salicastrum. Compare Galician chaguazo and Spanish jaguarzo.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: sar‧ga‧ço
Noun edit
sargaço m (plural sargaços)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: sargàs
- → English: sargasso
- → Italian: sargasso
- → Spanish: sargazo
- → Translingual: Sargassum
See also edit
References edit
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “arcazón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 315
- Corriente, Federico (2008) “arcazón”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 186