ericius

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin

Noun

ericius (plural not attested)

1. (biblical) hedgehog

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰḗr (“to bristle”), cognate with Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos, “hedgehog”). Compare ēr (“hedgehog”), and its variant forms.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eːˈri.ki.us/, [eːˈrɪkiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈri.t͡ʃi.us/, [eˈriːt͡ʃius]

Noun

ēricius m (genitive ēriciī or ēricī); second declension

1. hedgehog
2. (military) A beam armed with sharp spikes.
   • c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili 3.67:

     Erat obiectus portis ericius.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ēricius	ēriciī
Genitive	ēriciī ēricī1	ēriciōrum
Dative	ēriciō	ēriciīs
Accusative	ēricium	ēriciōs
Ablative	ēriciō	ēriciīs
Vocative	ēricie	ēriciī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

• ērināceus

Descendants

• Albanian: uriq, iriq
• Asturian: arizo
• Aromanian: ariciu, arici
• Catalan: eriçó
• Corsican: ricciu
• English: urchin
• French: hérisson
• Friulian: riç, rič
• Galician: ourizo
• Italian: riccio
• Occitan: eriç, eiriç, eriçon

• Old Occitan: aritz
• Portuguese: erício, ouriço
• Romanian: arici
• Romansch: erizun
• Sardinian: rizzu
• Scots: hurcheon
• Sicilian: rizzu
• Spanish: erizo, rizo
• Translingual: , ,
• Venetian: riço, riso

References

• “ericius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ericius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ericius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ericius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “ericius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ericius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin