Saragoça

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic سَرَقُسْطَة (saraqusṭa) (apparently with metathesis), from Latin Caesaraugusta.

• IPA^(key): /saɾaˈɡot͡sa/

Saragoça f

1. Zaragoza (the capital city of the modern autonomous community of Aragon, Spain)
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 2v:

     Et ffallan la otroſſi en eſpanna en unos montes q ſõ çerca de Saragoça en un logar q̃ dizen diche. Et otroſſi en el monte q̃ es cabo granada aq̃ llaman ſoler en unas cueuas q̃ y a. Pero tan bien las de ſaragoça como las de granada ſon pocas.

     And they find another in Spain in some hills near Zaragoza, in a place they calle Diche. Yet another is found in a hill that is around Granada, which they call Soler, in some caves that are near there. But those from Zaragoza, as well as those from Granada, are few.

• Old Galician-Portuguese: Saragoça
  • Portuguese: Saragoça
• Spanish: Zaragoza

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Saragoça

Wikipedia ^pt

From Old Galician-Portuguese Saragoça, from Old Spanish Saragoça, from Andalusian Arabic سَرَقُسْطَة (saraqusṭa), from Latin Caesaraugusta.

• Hyphenation: Sa‧ra‧go‧ça

Saragoça f

1. Zaragoza (a province of Aragon, Spain)
2. Zaragoza (the capital city of Aragon, Spain)

• saragoçano