arzón

arzón

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese arçon, from Latin *arciō (“saddlebow”), from arcus. Cogante with Portuguese arção and Spanish arzón.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aɾˈθoŋ/, (western) /aɾˈsoŋ/

Noun

arzón m (plural arzóns)

1. saddle bow; pommel
   • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 665:

     Et tragiam ante si duzentos caualos armados, os escudos aos arçoes

     And they brought with them two hundred armed horses, the shields [hanging] from the saddlebows

2. spine, backbone of pigs or cattle

References

• “arçon” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “arçoes” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “arzón” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “arzón” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “arzón” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish arzon~arçon, from Vulgar Latin arciōnem (“saddlebow”), from Latin arcus (“bow”). The frequent voiced /dz/ in Old Spanish may be due to the influence of arzen (modern arcén).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aɾˈθon/ [aɾˈθõn]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /aɾˈson/ [aɾˈsõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: ar‧zón

Noun

arzón m (plural arzones)

1. saddle bow

References

• Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “arzón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 369

Further reading

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