sargaço
Portuguese
Etymology
Apparently from a Mozarabic *šaugaçro (via metathesis of /r/ and loss of /w/), from Latin salicastrum. Compare Galician chaguazo and Spanish jaguarzo.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /saʁˈɡa.su/ [saɦˈɡa.su]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /saɾˈɡa.su/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /saʁˈɡa.su/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /saɻˈɡa.so/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /sɐɾˈɡa.su/ [sɐɾˈɣa.su]
- Hyphenation: sar‧ga‧ço
Noun
sargaço m (plural sargaços)
- sargasso, gulfweed (Sargassum spp.)
- Montpellier cistus (Cistus monspeliensis)
- woolly rock rose (Halimium lasianthum subsp. alyssoides)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Catalan: sargàs
- → English: sargasso
- → Italian: sargasso
- → Spanish: sargazo
- → Translingual: Sargassum
See also
References
- “sargaço”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “arcazón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume 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