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]

• (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)

1. sargasso, gulfweed (Sargassum spp.)
2. Montpellier cistus (Cistus monspeliensis)
3. woolly rock rose (Halimium lasianthum subsp. alyssoides)

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 (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