sargazo

== Spanish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Portuguese sargaço, ultimately from Latin salicastrum. Doublet of jaguarzo and perhaps arcazón (“osier-twig”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /saɾˈɡaθo/ [saɾˈɣ̞a.θo] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain) IPA(key): /saɾˈɡaso/ [saɾˈɣ̞a.so] (Latin America, Philippines) Rhymes: -aθo (Equatorial Guinea, Spain) Rhymes: -aso (Latin America, Philippines) Syllabification: sar‧ga‧zo === Noun === sargazo m (plural sargazos) 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025