Noun: arzón
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | arzón |
| Plural m | arzóns |
Sample Sentences
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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) [c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 665:]
Nouns inflected like arzón
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese arçon, from Vulgar Latin *arciōnem (“saddlebow”), from arcus. Cognate with Portuguese arção and Spanish arzón. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
arçon', Portuguese Nouns '
arção', Spanish Nouns '
arzón'.
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