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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
zorro (plural zorros)
- A South American canid of the genus Lycalopex, visually similar to (and sometimes referred to as) a fox but more closely related to a wolf.
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Basque[edit]
Noun[edit]
zorro
Descendants[edit]
- → Spanish: zurrón
Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unknown. Attested since the 13th century.[1] Cognate with Spanish zorro.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
zorro m (feminine singular zorra, masculine plural zorros, feminine plural zorras)
Noun[edit]
zorro m (plural zorros)
References[edit]
- “zorro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “zorro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “zorro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “zorro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “zorro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “zorra”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
First attested in the 15th century, chiefly in the feminine form zorra. Of unclear origin:
- perhaps from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia. If so, it may be related to Spanish perro,
- perhaps from Middle French sor (“yellowish-brown, reddish-brown, sorrel”), or
- perhaps from Basque azeri (“fox”).
- A fourth suggestion, that the term derives from a verb *zorrar from onomatopoeia, is considered "far from convincing" and "unprovable".[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθoro/ [ˈθo.ro]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsoro/ [ˈso.ro]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -oro
- Syllabification: zo‧rro
Noun[edit]
zorro m (plural zorros, feminine zorra, feminine plural zorras)
- fox (carnivore)
- Synonym: zorra
- (Campeche, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Yucatán) opossum
- skunk
- Synonym: zorrillo
- (by extension, figurative) fox (sly or cunning person)
- (Argentina) jack (device used to raise and temporarily support a heavy object)
- (by extension, figurative) beacon
Derived terms[edit]
Adjective[edit]
zorro (feminine zorra, masculine plural zorros, feminine plural zorras)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ 2012, A History of the Spanish Lexicon: A Linguistic Perspective →ISBN, page 39: "The initial attestations of Sp. zorro/zorra 'fox' are from the mid fifteenth century and appear almost exclusively in the feminine, employed in cancionero poetry, with reference to idle, immoral women (cf. mod. zorra 'prostitute'). […] DCECH may well be right in stating that zorro/zorra secondarily became a euphemistic designation for the dreaded fox (cf. raposo so used). […] The late initial documentation of zorro leads to the question [of] whether this word goes back to early Roman Spain or whether it is a later borrowing from Basque, a derivation, as noted above, challenged by Trask (1997: 421). Far from convincing is the unprovable hypothesis in DCECH that zorro goes back to a verb zorrar (whose authenticity I have been unable to verify), allegedly of onomatopoeic origin."
Further reading[edit]
- “zorro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Schoenhals, Louise C. (1988) A Spanish - English Glossary of Mexican Flora and Fauna[1], Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 599
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