erizo

From Spanish erizo.

erizo (plural erizos)

1. (obsolete) A sea urchin (Echinoidea spp.).
   • 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.

• Ozier, ozier

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

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

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

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

1. hedgehog (mammal of the subfamily Erinaceinae)
2. ellipsis of erizo de mar (“sea urchin”, literally “sea hedgehog”)

erizo

1. first-person singular present indicative of erizar

• “erizo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024