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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
Noun
sargaço m (plural sargaços)
- sargasso, gulfweed (Sargassum spp.)
- Montpellier cistus (Cistus monspeliensis)
- woolly rock rose (Halimium lasianthum subsp. alyssoides)
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References
- “sargaço”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “arcazón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes 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