ericius

From Latin ēricius.

ericius (plural not attested)

1. (biblical) hedgehog

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

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

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.

Second-declension noun.

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

• *ērīciō

• “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