ouriço
Galician
editNoun
editouriço m (plural ouriços, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of ourizo
Further reading
edit- “ouriço” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Portuguese
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese ouriço, from Latin ēricius (“hedgehog”) (possibly through a Vulgar Latin form *auricius), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰḗr (“to bristle”).
Cognate with Galician ourizo, Asturian oriciu, Spanish erizo (Santander dialect orizo), Catalan eriçó (dialectal oriç), Occitan eriç, French hérisson (cf. also oursin), Italian riccio and Romanian arici.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ou‧ri‧ço
Noun
editouriço m (plural ouriços)
- hedgehog
- Synonym: ouriço-cacheiro
- O ouriço usa os seus espinhos para se proteger dos predadores.
- The hedgehog uses its quills to protect itself from predators.
- chestnut burr
- sea urchin
- Synonym: ouriço-do-mar
- Quando penetram a pele humana, os espinhos do ouriço infligem uma ferida dolorosa.
- The sea urchin's spines inflict a painful wound when they penetrate human skin.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- ouriço on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
- “ouriço” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “ouriço”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “ouriço”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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