hurón
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Late Latin fūrōnem, from Latin fūr (“thief”). Cognate with English ferret.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hurón m (plural hurones)
- (also figurative) ferret
Derived terms edit
- huroncito (“grison”)
- hurón menor
- hurón patagónico (“Patagonian weasel”)
Further reading edit
- “hurón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- hurón on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es