armadillo
See also: Armadillo
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado (“armored”) in reference to its protective plates.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ɑɹməˈdɪloʊ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɑːməˈdɪləʊ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪləʊ
- Hyphenation: ar‧ma‧dil‧lo
Noun
[edit]armadillo (plural armadillos or armadilloes)
- Any of the burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, families Dasypodidae and Chlamyphoridae in the order Cingulata, found in the Americas, especially in South America.
- 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
- The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters …. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.
Synonyms
[edit]- quirquincho (archaic)
Derived terms
[edit]- (order Cingulata): Andean hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi), beautiful armadillo (†Dasypus bellus), big hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus villosus), Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous chacoensis), dwarf armadillo (Zaedyus pichiy), giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus), great long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus kappleri), greater fairy armadillo, greater naked-tailed armadillo, hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus spp.), hairy long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus pilosus), horned armadillo (†Peltephilus), Llanos long-nosed armadillo, long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus spp.), naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous spp.), nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), northern horned armadillo, northern three-banded armadillo, pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus), pygmy armadillo (Zaedyus pichiy), screaming hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus vellerosus), seven-banded armadillo (Dasypus septemcinctus), six-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus), southern long-nosed armadillo, southern naked-tailed armadillo (Dasypus hybridus), southern three-banded armadillo, Texas armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus or Tolypeutes tricinctus), six-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus)
- mule armadillo
- armadillo ant
- armadillo bug (in order Oniscidea)
- armadillo egg
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates
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[edit]Further reading
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Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish armadillo.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central) [ər.məˈði.ʎu]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ər.məˈði.ʎo]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [aɾ.maˈði.ʎo]
Audio (Barcelona): (file)
Noun
[edit]armadillo m (plural armadillos)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish armadillo.
Noun
[edit]armadillo m (plural armadilli)
Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English armadillo, from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado (“armored”), in reference to its protective plates.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]armadillo
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From armado (“armored”) + -illo (diminutive suffix), literally “litte armored one”.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /aɾmaˈdiʝo/ [aɾ.maˈð̞i.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
- IPA(key): /aɾmaˈdiʎo/ [aɾ.maˈð̞i.ʎo] (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /aɾmaˈdiʃo/ [aɾ.maˈð̞i.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /aɾmaˈdiʒo/ [aɾ.maˈð̞i.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
- Rhymes: -iʎo (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: ar‧ma‧di‧llo
Noun
[edit]armadillo m (plural armadillos)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “armadillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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- Rhymes:Spanish/iʝo
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