ericius

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English

Etymology

From Latin ēricius.

Noun

ericius (plural not attested)

  1. (biblical) hedgehog

Latin

Etymology

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

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

Noun

ērīcius m (genitive ērīciī or ērīcī); second declension

  1. hedgehog
    Synonym: ērīnāceus
  2. (military) A beam armed with sharp spikes.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative ērīcius ērīciī
genitive ērīciī
ērīcī1 		ērīciōrum
dative ērīciō ērīciīs
accusative ērīcium ērīciōs
ablative ērīciō ērīciīs
vocative ērīcie ērīciī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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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
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