sargazo

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese sargaço, ultimately from Latin salicastrum. Doublet of jaguarzo and perhaps arcazón (“osier-twig”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Spain) /saɾˈɡaθo/ [saɾˈɣ̞a.θo]
IPA^(key): (Latin America) /saɾˈɡaso/ [saɾˈɣ̞a.so]
(Spain) Rhymes: -aθo
(Latin America) Rhymes: -aso
Syllabification: sar‧ga‧zo

Noun

sargazo m (plural sargazos)

sargasso, gulfweed (brown algae)

References

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

Further reading

“sargazo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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