sargaço
Portuguese
editEtymology
editApparently 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
editsargaço m (plural sargaços)
- sargasso, gulfweed (Sargassum spp.)
- Montpellier cistus (Cistus monspeliensis)
- woolly rock rose (Halimium lasianthum subsp. alyssoides)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Catalan: sargàs
- → English: sargasso
- → Italian: sargasso
- → Spanish: sargazo
- → Translingual: Sargassum
See also
editReferences
edit- “sargaço” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- 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