sarraceno
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Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin Saracēnus, Sarracēnus, from Ancient Greek Σᾰρᾰκηνός (Sarakēnós).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sar‧ra‧ce‧no
Adjective
sarraceno (feminine sarracena, masculine plural sarracenos, feminine plural sarracenas)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “sarraceno”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “sarraceno”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σαρακηνός (Sarakēnós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /saraˈθeno/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /saraˈseno/
- Rhymes: -eno
- Syllabification: sa‧rra‧ce‧no
Adjective
sarraceno (feminine sarracena, masculine plural sarracenos, feminine plural sarracenas)
- Saracen
- (dated) Muslim
- Synonyms: mahometano, musulmán
Noun
sarraceno m (plural sarracenos, feminine sarracena, feminine plural sarracenas)
- Saracen
- (dated) Muslim
- Synonyms: mahometano, musulmán
Derived terms
Further reading
- “sarraceno”, 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