hurón
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Late Latin fūrōnem, from Latin fūr (“thief”). Cognate with English ferret.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /uˈɾon/ [uˈɾõn]
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: hu‧rón
Noun
hurón m (plural hurones)
- (also figurative) ferret
Derived terms
- huroncito (“grison”)
- hurón menor
- hurón patagónico (“Patagonian weasel”)
Further reading
- “hurón”, 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
- hurón on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es