ericius

ericius

English

Etymology

From Latin ēricius.

Noun

ericius (plural not attested)

1. (biblical) hedgehog

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰḗr (“hedgehog”). Compare ēr (“hedgehog”), and its variant forms.

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

ēricius m (genitive ēriciī or ēricī); second declension

1. hedgehog

   Synonym: ērināceus

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).

Derived terms

• *ērīciō

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: ariciu, arici
  • Romanian: arici
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: ricciu
  • Italian: riccio
  • Sicilian: rizzu, rizza f
    • → Maltese: rizza
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: riss, ress
    • Ligurian: riseu, rìsso
    • Lombard: riss, ress, ariss
    • Piedmontese: ariss, riss
  • Friulian: riç, rič
  • Romansch: rizza f
  • Venetian: riço, riso
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: héres
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: oriç
  • Old Occitan: aritz
    • Languedocien: eriç, eiriç
    • Vivaro-Alpine: eriç
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: erizo, arizo
  • Asturian: oriciu, ariciu, arizu
  • Galician: ourizo
  • Portuguese: ouriço, oiriço
  • Spanish: erizo, rizo
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: rizzu
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: uriq, iriq (ancient borrowing)
  • → English: ericius
  • → Portuguese: erício
  • Translingual: Clubiona ericius, Hypostomus ericius, Metabelba ericius

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