sargazo

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese sargaço, ultimately from Latin salicastrum. Doublet of jaguarzo and perhaps arcazón (“osier-twig”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /saɾˈɡaθo/ [saɾˈɣ̞a.θo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /saɾˈɡaso/ [saɾˈɣ̞a.so]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -aθo
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -aso
• Syllabification: sar‧ga‧zo

Noun

sargazo m (plural sargazos)

1. sargasso, gulfweed (brown algae)

References

• 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

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