jaguarzo

Spanish

jaguarzo

Alternative forms

• juagarzo, juaguarzo

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish xaguarço, apparently borrowed from a Mozarabic *šaguarço, variant (with double-metathesis) of *šaugaçro, from Latin salicastrum. Doublet of sargazo (borrowed via Portuguese) and possibly of arcazón as well.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /xaˈɡwaɾθo/ [xaˈɣ̞waɾ.θo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /xaˈɡwaɾso/ [xaˈɣ̞waɾ.so]
• Rhymes: -aɾθo
• Rhymes: -aɾso
• Syllabification: ja‧guar‧zo

Noun

jaguarzo m (plural jaguarzos)

1. rockrose (Cistus or Halimium spp.)

   Synonym: jara

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “arcazón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (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

• “jaguarzo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28