eriçó

See also: Erico and Érico

Catalan

Etymology

From a variant of , from Vulgar Latin *ērīciō, ērīciōnem, from Latin ēricius, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰḗr (“to bristle”). Compare Occitan eriçon, French hérisson, Romansch erizun. Alternatively, from an earlier form *eriç (compare Occitan eriç, Old Occitan aritz, Italian riccio, Spanish erizo), later suffixed with -ó, from Latin -ōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.ɾiˈso]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [e.ɾiˈso]

Noun

eriçó m (plural eriçons)

1. hedgehog