chorizo

chorizo

English

Corn bread with cheese and chorizo

Alternative forms

• choritso (pronunciation spelling)
• chorizzo (pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chŏrēʹzō, IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɒˈɹiː.zəʊ/ or like Spanish: /t͡ʃɒˈɹiːsəʊ/, /t͡ʃɒˈɹiːθəʊ/

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• (US) enPR: chərēʹzō, IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəˈɹi.zoʊ/[1][2] or like Spanish: /t͡ʃoʊˈɹisoʊ/, /tʃəˈɹisoʊ/,[1][2] /t͡ʃoʊˈɹiθoʊ/[2]
• (Britain, Ireland, proscribed) enPR: chəritsō, IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəˈɹɪtsəʊ/ or /t͡ʃəˈɹi.tsəʊ/

Noun

chorizo (countable and uncountable, plural chorizos)

1. A spicy Spanish sausage flavoured with paprika, often crumbled for use in filling tacos, quesadillas, etc.
   • 2008 January–February, Mark Bittman, “The only 7 meals you need for 2008”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, ISSN 1054-4836, page 138:

     Substitute three chopped scallions and a minced jalapeño for the onion, and 6 ounces crumbled chorizo for the tomatoes. Sub ½ cup queso fresco for the Parmesan in step 2. Serve with salsa.

Related terms

• chouriço

Translations

type of sausage

Afrikaans: chorizo Asturian: chorizu m Basque: txorizo Catalan: xoriço (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 橋里索香腸／桥里索香肠 (qiáolǐsuǒ xiāngcháng), 西班牙香腸／西班牙香肠 (Xībānyá xiāngcháng), 蒜味臘腸／蒜味腊肠 (suànwèi làcháng) Dutch: chorizo (nl) Esperanto: ĉorizo Finnish: chorizo (fi) French: chorizo (fr) m Galician: chourizo (gl) m German: Chorizo (de) f Greek: τσορίθο (tsorítho) Italian: chorizo (it) m Japanese: チョリソ (choriso) Kabuverdianu: txorís, txurise Korean: 초리소 (choriso) Polish: chorizo (pl) n Portuguese: chouriço (pt) m, chouriça (pt) f Russian: чоризо (ru) (čorizo), чорисо (čoriso) Spanish: chorizo (es) m Swedish: chorizo (sv) c Tagalog: longganisa, soriso Ukrainian: чорі́со (čoríso)

Further reading

• chorizo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “chorizo” defined by Infoplease.com: pronounced: chu-rē'zō; Sp. chô-rē'sô, -thô, plural: (-zōz; Sp. -sôs, -thôs
• “Chorizo” listed in the BBC Food Glossary (accessed on 17.09.2009): pronounced: ‘chor-eetho’

1. “chorizo”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
2. “chorizo”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔ.ʁi.zo/

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Noun

chorizo m (plural chorizos)

1. chorizo

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /t͡ʃoˈɾiθo/ [t͡ʃoˈɾi.θo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /t͡ʃoˈɾiso/ [t͡ʃoˈɾi.so]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -iθo
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification: cho‧ri‧zo

Etymology 1

Probably borrowed from Portuguese chouriço or Galician chourizo,[1] both from Old Portuguese souriço (attested 13th c.), from Vulgar Latin *saurīcium, of uncertain origin. First attested in Spanish in 1604.[2]

Noun

chorizo m (plural chorizos)

1. a type of sausage
2. (Uruguay) a foolish person

   Synonym: longaniza

3. (vulgar, slang) a penis

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene

4. (slang, Costa Rica) corruption

Derived terms

• choripán
• choriqueso
• chorizar

Descendants

• → Catalan: xoriço
• → English: chorizo
• → French: chorizo

Etymology 2

From chori, from Caló chorar (“to steal”).

Noun

chorizo m (plural chorizos)

1. (Spain) a crook
2. (Spain, Mexico, Chile, colloquial) petty thief, pickpocket

   Synonyms: choro, ratero, ladronzuelo, carterista

Adjective

chorizo (feminine choriza, masculine plural chorizos, feminine plural chorizas)

1. (vulgar, Chile) stuck-up, haughty

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

chorizo

1. first-person singular present indicative of chorizar

References

1. Martins Estêvez, Higino. Germanismos pouco estudados do Galego-Português.
2. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “chorizo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 392

Further reading

• “chorizo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɕoˈritso/, /ɕoˈriːso/

Noun

chorizo c

1. chorizo

Declension

Declension of chorizo
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	chorizo	chorizon	chorizor	chorizorna
Genitive	chorizos	chorizons	chorizors	chorizornas

Declension of chorizo
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	chorizo	chorizoen	chorizoer	chorizoerna
Genitive	chorizos	chorizoens	chorizoers	chorizoernas