cazón

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese caçon, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *cattiō from cattus (“cat”), given that many of these sharks are named catfish or dogfish in a number of languages. Compare Portuguese cação, Catalan cassó, Sicilian cazzuni.[1]

• IPA^(key): /kaˈθoŋ/, (western) /kaˈsoŋ/

cazón m (plural cazóns)

1. school shark (Galeorhinus galeus)

   Synonyms: can do mar, tollo

• “caçon” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “caçon” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cazón” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cazón” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cazón” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From cazar.

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): [ka̠ˈθo̞n]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): [ka̠ˈso̞n]
• Homophone: cazo

cazón m (plural cazones)

1. dogfish, tope