erizo

See also: erizó

English

Etymology

Spanish erizo

Noun

erizo (plural erizos)

1. (obsolete) A sea urchin.
   • 1774, Thomas Falkner, A Description of Patagonia, And The Adjoining Parts of South America:

     The erizo, or water hedge-hog, is very like the armado, but not quite so large.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /eˈɾiθo/ [eˈɾi.θo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /eˈɾiso/ [eˈɾi.so]

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• (Spain) Rhymes: -iθo
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification: e‧ri‧zo

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin ēricius (“hedgehog”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰḗr (“to bristle”). Compare English urchin.

Noun

erizo m (plural erizos, feminine eriza, feminine plural erizas)

1. hedgehog
2. sea urchin

   Synonym: erizo de mar

Derived terms

• erizar
• erizo común

 

Related terms

• erizón
• rizo

 

Etymology 2

Verb

erizo

1. first-person singular present indicative of erizar

Further reading

• “erizo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014