jagonce

Old French

Alternative forms

• jargonce, jaconce

Etymology

Unknown, 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

jagonce oblique singular, f (oblique plural jagonces, nominative singular jagonce, nominative plural jagonces)

1. a precious stone (exact identity varies or is uncertain)

References

• Nykl, Alois Richard (1920) “Old Spanish Girgonça”, in Modern Philology, volume 18, number 6, pages 141–144