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)

Derived terms

Mar dos Sargaços

Descendants

→ Catalan: sargàs
→ English: sargasso
→ Italian: sargasso
→ Spanish: sargazo
→ Translingual: Sargassum

See also

alga

References

“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

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