jagonce
Old French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editUnknown, 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
editjagonce 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