Noun: armadillo
| Singular | armadillo |
| Plural | armadillos; armadilloes |
Sample Sentences
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The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters …. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. [2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:]
Nouns inflected like armadillo
great go,
great-go,
senhor,
afrancesado,
sprite halo,
shacko,
commando,
villiaco,
magic Negro,
Phnom Laang bent-toed gecko,
chacmool,
yerbal,
depressor,
bombolo,
bolivar,
bolívar,
buccinator,
boratto,
botargo,
slashed zero, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmosder.
4. Latin arma
5. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
6. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
7. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
8. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
9. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
10. Proto-Italic *-ājō
11. Proto-Italic *-āō
12. Latin -ō
13. Latin armō
14. ▲
15. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
16. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
17. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
18. Proto-Italic *-ātos
19. Latin -ātus
20. Latin armātus
21. Old Spanish armado
22. Spanish armado
23. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
24. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
25. Proto-Italic *-elos
26. Latin -lus
27. Latin -ellus
28. Old Spanish -iello
29. Spanish -illo
30. Spanish armadillobor.
31. English armadillo
32. Borrowed from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado (“armored”), in reference to its protective plates. See: Spanish Nouns '
armadillo'.
Verbs referencing "armadillo"
Irish Nouns
armadailín.