arzón

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese arçon, from Vulgar Latin *arciōnem (“saddlebow”), from arcus. Cognate with Portuguese arção and Spanish arzón.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾˈθoŋ/, (western) /aɾˈsoŋ/

Noun

arzón m (plural arzóns)

1. saddle bow; pommel
   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 665:

     Et tragiam ante si duzentos caualos armados, os escudos aos arçoes

     And they brought with them two hundred armed horses, the shields from the saddlebows

2. spine, backbone of pigs or cattle

References

• “arçon” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “arçoes” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “arzón” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “arzón” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “arzón” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish arzon~arçon, from Vulgar Latin *arciōnem (“saddlebow”), from Latin arcus (“bow”). The frequent voiced /dz/ in Old Spanish may be due to the influence of arzen (modern arcén).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aɾˈθon/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /aɾˈson/
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: ar‧zón

Noun

arzón m (plural arzones)

1. saddle bow

References

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “arzón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 369

Further reading

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