jaguarzo
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jaguarzo
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish xaguarço, apparently borrowed from a Mozarabic *šaguarço, variant (with double-metathesis) of *šaugaçro, from Latin salicastrum. Doublet of sargazo (borrowed via Portuguese) and possibly of arcazón as well.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /xaˈɡwaɾθo/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /xaˈɡwaɾso/
- Rhymes: -aɾθo
- Rhymes: -aɾso
- Syllabification: ja‧guar‧zo
Noun
jaguarzo m (plural jaguarzos)
References
- Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1984) “arcazón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic 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
Further reading
- “jaguarzo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10