chorizo

See also: Chorizo

English
Corn bread with cheese and chorizo

Alternative forms
  • choritso, chorizzo (spellings affected by the 'hyper-foreign' pronunciations with /ts/)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

Pronunciation
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chŏrēʹzō, IPA(key): /t͡ʃɒˈɹiː.zəʊ/ or like Spanish: /t͡ʃɒˈɹiːsəʊ/, /t͡ʃɒˈɹiːθəʊ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (US) enPR: chərēʹzō, IPA(key): /t͡ʃəˈɹi.zoʊ/[1][2] or like Spanish: /t͡ʃoʊˈɹisoʊ/, /tʃəˈɹisoʊ/,[1][2] /t͡ʃoʊˈɹiθoʊ/[2]
  • (Britain, Ireland, proscribed) enPR: chəritsō, IPA(key): /t͡ʃəˈɹɪtsəʊ/ or /t͡ʃəˈɹi.tsəʊ/

Noun

chorizo (countable and uncountable, plural chorizos)

  1. A spicy Spanish sausage flavoured with paprika, often crumbled for use in filling tacos, quesadillas, etc.
    • 2008 January–February, Mark Bittman, “The only 7 meals you need for 2008”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 138:
      Substitute three chopped scallions and a minced jalapeño for the onion, and 6 ounces crumbled chorizo for the tomatoes. Sub ½ cup queso fresco for the Parmesan in step 2. Serve with salsa.

Translations

Further reading

References
  • “chorizo” defined by Infoplease.com: pronounced: chu-rē'zō; Sp. chô-rē'sô, -thô, plural: (-zōz; Sp. -sôs, -thôs
  • “Chorizo” listed in the BBC Food Glossary (accessed on 17.09.2009): pronounced: ‘chor-eetho’
  1. “chorizo”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  2. “chorizo”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃɔ.ʁi.zo/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

chorizo m (plural chorizos)

  1. chorizo

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): (Spain) /t͡ʃoˈɾiθo/ [t͡ʃoˈɾi.θo]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /t͡ʃoˈɾiso/ [t͡ʃoˈɾi.so]
  • Audio (Venezuela):(file)
  • (Spain) Rhymes: -iθo
  • (Latin America) Rhymes: -iso
  • Syllabification: cho‧ri‧zo

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Portuguese chouriço or Galician chourizo,[1] either way from Old Galician-Portuguese souriço, of uncertain origin. First attested in Spanish in 1604.[2]

Noun

chorizo m (plural chorizos)

  1. a type of sausage
  2. (Uruguay) a foolish person
    Synonym: longaniza
  3. (vulgar, slang) a penis
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene
  4. (slang, Costa Rica) corruption
    Synonym: corrupción
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Basque: txorizo
  • → Catalan: xoriço
  • → English: chorizo
  • → French: chorizo
  • → Swedish: chorizo

Etymology 2

From chori, from Caló chorar (“to steal”).

Noun

chorizo m (plural chorizos)

  1. (Spain) a crook
  2. (Spain, Mexico, Chile, colloquial) petty thief, pickpocket
    Synonyms: choro, ratero, ladronzuelo, carterista

Adjective

chorizo (feminine choriza, masculine plural chorizos, feminine plural chorizas)

  1. (vulgar, Chile) stuck-up, haughty

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

chorizo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of chorizar

References
  1. Martins Estêvez, Higino. Germanismos pouco estudados do Galego-Português.
  2. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “chorizo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 392

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɕoˈritso/, /ɕoˈriːso/

Noun

chorizo c

  1. chorizo

Declension
Declension of chorizo 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative chorizo chorizon chorizor chorizorna
Genitive chorizos chorizons chorizors chorizornas
Declension of chorizo 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative chorizo chorizoen chorizoer chorizoerna
Genitive chorizos chorizoens chorizoers chorizoernas

Declension
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