Noun: hérisson
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | hérisson |
| Singular f | hérissonne |
| Plural m | hérissons |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like hérisson
Nigérien,
Westphalien,
Abitibien,
sidéen,
pochetron,
omnipraticien,
technicien,
Ciotaden,
Colombien,
opticien,
champion,
Calaisien,
Haïtien,
Phœnicien,
chiromancien,
Akkadien,
Thessalonicien,
Issoirien,
bouffon,
antipoutinien, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French heriçun, heriçon, from a hypothetical Old French *eriz, from Latin erīcius (“hedgehog”), with the suffix -on added later; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰḗr. Another possibility may be a Vulgar Latin root *ērīcio, ērīciōnem, but this would have seemingly produced *erçon in Old French. Compare, however, Catalan eriçó and Romansh erizun. See also oursin. See: Latin Nouns '
erīcius', Catalan Nouns '
eriçó'.
Verbs referencing "hérisson"
English Nouns
urchin, Portuguese Nouns
ouriço, Romanian Nouns
arici.
Translations