sargaço

== 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 === Hyphenation: sar‧ga‧ço === Noun === sargaço m (plural sargaços) sargasso, gulfweed (Sargassum spp.) Montpellier cistus (Cistus monspeliensis) woolly rock rose (Halimium lasianthum subsp. alyssoides) ==== Derived terms ==== Mar dos Sargaços ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: sargàs → English: sargasso → Italian: sargasso → Spanish: sargazo → Translingual: Sargassum ==== See also ==== alga === References === “sargaço”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “sargaço”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026 Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “arcazón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (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 === “sargaço”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026