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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “caçon”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “caçon”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cazón”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cazón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cazón”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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