jagonce
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Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unknown, from Italian giargone or directly from Arabic زَرْقُون (zarqūn) via Crusades loot, and influenced in French by forms of jacincte (“jacinth”), or vice versa, probably mixed up after hearsay.
Noun[edit]
jagonce oblique singular, f (oblique plural jagonces, nominative singular jagonce, nominative plural jagonces)
References[edit]
- Nykl, Alois Richard (1920) “Old Spanish Girgonça”, in Modern Philology, volume 18, number 6, pages 141–144