Noun: ouriço
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | ouriço |
| Plural m | ouriços |
Sample Sentences
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O ouriço usa os seus espinhos para se proteger dos predadores. (The hedgehog uses its quills to protect itself from predators.)
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Quando penetram a pele humana, os espinhos do ouriço infligem uma ferida dolorosa. (The sea urchin's spines inflict a painful wound when they penetrate human skin.)
Nouns inflected like ouriço
egocentrismo,
lantanídeo,
lantanídio,
miligrama,
flash card,
decímetro,
fingimento,
mililitro,
parassuicídio,
algómetro,
ancoradouro,
ancoradoiro,
escândalo,
sereio,
sereno,
sestro,
seguro,
senado,
enlatamento,
Dezembro, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old Galician-Portuguese ouriço, from Latin ēricius (“hedgehog”) (possibly through a Vulgar Latin form *auricius), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰḗr (“to bristle”).
2. Cognate with Galician ourizo, Asturian oriciu, Spanish erizo (Santander dialect orizo), Catalan eriçó (dialectal oriç), Occitan eriç, French hérisson (cf. also oursin), Italian riccio and Romanian arici. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
ouriço', Latin Nouns '
ēricius', Galician Nouns '
ourizo', Spanish Nouns '
erizo', Catalan Nouns '
eriçó', French Nouns '
hérisson', Italian Nouns '
riccio', Romanian Nouns '
arici'.
Verbs referencing "ouriço"
Galician Nouns
ourizo.
Translations