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chorizo

See also: Chorizo

English edit

 
Corn bread with cheese and chorizo

Alternative forms edit

  • choritso, chorizzo (spellings affected by the 'hyper-foreign' pronunciations with /ts/)

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

Pronunciation edit

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chŏrēʹzō, IPA(key): /t͡ʃɒˈɹiː.zəʊ/ or like Spanish: /t͡ʃɒˈɹiːsəʊ/, /t͡ʃɒˈɹiːθəʊ/
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  • (US) enPR: chərēʹzō, IPA(key): /t͡ʃəˈɹi.zoʊ/[1][2] or like Spanish: /t͡ʃoʊˈɹisoʊ/, /tʃəˈɹisoʊ/,[1][2] /t͡ʃoʊˈɹiθoʊ/[2]
  • (Britain, Ireland, proscribed) enPR: chəritsō, IPA(key): /t͡ʃəˈɹɪtsəʊ/ or /t͡ʃəˈɹi.tsəʊ/

Noun edit

chorizo (countable and uncountable, plural chorizos)

  1. A spicy Spanish sausage flavoured with paprika, often crumbled for use in filling tacos, quesadillas, etc.
    • 2008 January–February, Mark Bittman, “The only 7 meals you need for 2008”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 138:
      Substitute three chopped scallions and a minced jalapeño for the onion, and 6 ounces crumbled chorizo for the tomatoes. Sub ½ cup queso fresco for the Parmesan in step 2. Serve with salsa.

Related terms edit

Translations edit

Further reading edit

References edit

  • “chorizo” defined by Infoplease.com: pronounced: chu-rē'zō; Sp. chô-rē'sô, -thô, plural: (-zōz; Sp. -sôs, -thôs
  • “Chorizo” listed in the BBC Food Glossary (accessed on 17.09.2009): pronounced: ‘chor-eetho’
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “chorizo”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 “chorizo”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

French edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

chorizo m (plural chorizos)

  1. chorizo

Spanish edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /t͡ʃoˈɾiθo/ [t͡ʃoˈɾi.θo]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /t͡ʃoˈɾiso/ [t͡ʃoˈɾi.so]
  • Audio (Venezuela):(file)
  • (Spain) Rhymes: -iθo
  • (Latin America) Rhymes: -iso
  • Syllabification: cho‧ri‧zo

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Portuguese chouriço or Galician chourizo,[1] either way from Old Galician-Portuguese souriço, of uncertain origin. First attested in Spanish in 1604.[2]

Noun edit

chorizo m (plural chorizos)

  1. a type of sausage
  2. (Uruguay) a foolish person
    Synonym: longaniza
  3. (vulgar, slang) a penis
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene
  4. (slang, Costa Rica) corruption
    Synonym: corrupción
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • → Basque: txorizo
  • → Catalan: xoriço
  • → English: chorizo
  • → French: chorizo
  • → Swedish: chorizo

Etymology 2 edit

From chori, from Caló chorar (“to steal”).

Noun edit

chorizo m (plural chorizos)

  1. (Spain) a crook
  2. (Spain, Mexico, Chile, colloquial) petty thief, pickpocket
    Synonyms: choro, ratero, ladronzuelo, carterista

Adjective edit

chorizo (feminine choriza, masculine plural chorizos, feminine plural chorizas)

  1. (vulgar, Chile) stuck-up, haughty

Etymology 3 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

chorizo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of chorizar

References edit

  1. ^ Martins Estêvez, Higino. Germanismos pouco estudados do Galego-Português.
  2. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “chorizo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 392

Further reading edit

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɕoˈritso/, /ɕoˈriːso/

Noun edit

chorizo c

  1. chorizo

Declension edit

Declension of chorizo 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative chorizo chorizon chorizor chorizorna
Genitive chorizos chorizons chorizors chorizornas
Declension of chorizo 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative chorizo chorizoen chorizoer chorizoerna
Genitive chorizos chorizoens chorizoers chorizoernas

Declension edit

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