jauría

See also: jauria

Spanish

Etymology

Possibly from Mozarabic hauriya (“kind of dance”), from Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía, “dance”). Doublet of corea. Or, possibly imitative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xauˈɾia/, [xau̯ˈɾi.a]

Noun

jauría f (plural jaurías)

1. pack (of hounds) (a group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together)

See also

• rehala

Further reading

• “jauría”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN