chourizo

Galician

Chourizos

Chourizos caseiros artesáns ("homemade artisanal chorizo") for sale, at a fair

Alternative forms

• chouriço (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese souriço. Compare Portuguese chouriço. Spanish chorizo is borrowed either from Galician or Portuguese.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃowˈɾiθo/ [t͡ʃowˈɾi.θʊ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /t͡ʃowˈɾiθo/ [t͡ʃowˈɾi.θʊ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /t͡ʃowˈɾiso/ [t͡ʃowˈɾi.sʊ]

 

• Rhymes: -iθo

• Rhymes: -iθo
• Rhymes: -iso

Noun

chourizo m (plural chourizos)

1. chorizo (local cured and spiced sausage)
   • before 1251, Fernão Garcia Esgaravunha, Esta ama, cuj'é Joam Coelho:

     Nom acharedes em toda Castela / [...] / melhor ventrulho nem melhor morcela / do que a ama com sa mão faz; / e al faz bem, como diz seu marido: / faz bom souriç'e lava bem transido

     You won't find in all of Castille a better ventrulho [local speciality] nor a better morcela [black pudding] of what this lady elaborates with her hands; and the rest she also does it well, as her husband says, she elaborates good chorizo and she washes the sick

   • 1746, Martín Sarmiento, Coloquio de 24 gallegos rústicos:

     estaban os bufetes cheos de lenguas, chourizos, perniles, codelos; de lacós, cachuchas, fociños de cerdo

     the buffets abounded with tongues, chourizos, hams, knucles; with shoulders, heads, snouts of pork

Related terms

• abesouro
• chourela
• resouro
• souria

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “souriç”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chourizo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chourizo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chourizo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN