armadillo

See also: Armadillo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado (“armored”), in reference to its protective plates.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɑɹməˈdɪloʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɑːməˈdɪləʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪləʊ
• Hyphenation: ar‧ma‧dil‧lo

Noun

armadillo (plural armadillos or armadilloes)

1. Any of the burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, families Dasypodidae and Chlamyphoridae in the order Cingulata, found in the Americas, especially in South America.
   • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:

     The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters …. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.

Synonyms

• quirquincho (archaic)

Derived terms

• (order Cingulata): Andean hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi), beautiful armadillo (†Dasypus bellus), big hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus villosus), Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous chacoensis), dwarf armadillo (Zaedyus pichiy), giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus), great long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus kappleri), greater fairy armadillo, greater naked-tailed armadillo, hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus spp.), hairy long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus pilosus), horned armadillo (†Peltephilus), Llanos long-nosed armadillo, long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus spp.), naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous spp.), nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), northern horned armadillo, northern three-banded armadillo, pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus), pygmy armadillo (Zaedyus pichiy), screaming hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus vellerosus), seven-banded armadillo (Dasypus septemcinctus), six-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus), southern long-nosed armadillo, southern naked-tailed armadillo (Dasypus hybridus), southern three-banded armadillo, Texas armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus or Tolypeutes tricinctus), six-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus)
• mule armadillo

• armadillo ant
• armadillo bug (in order Oniscidea)
• armadillo egg

Related terms

• armor

Translations

burrowing mammal covered with bony, jointed, protective plates

Achi: ib’ooy Afrikaans: armadil, gordeldier (af) Arabic: مُدَرَّع m (mudarraʕ) Armenian: զրահակիր (hy) (zrahakir) Asturian: armadillu (ast) m Belarusian: браняно́сец m (branjanósjec) Breton: tatou m Bulgarian: бронено́сец (bg) m (bronenósec) Catalan: armadillo (ca) m Chamicuro: memili Cherokee: ᎤᏯᏍᎦᎳ (uyasgala), ᎤᏤᏣᏍᏗ ᎤᏯᏍᎦᏟ (utsetsasdi uyasgatli) Chickasaw: hattak illapa' Chinese: Mandarin: 犰狳 (zh) (qiúyú) Czech: pásovec (cs) m Danish: bæltedyr (da) n Dutch: gordeldier (nl) n, armadillo (nl) m, schildvarken n (Suriname), kapasie m (Suriname, rare) Esperanto: dazipo Estonian: vöölane (et), vööloom Finnish: vyötiäinen (fi) French: tatou (fr) m Galician: armadillo m German: Gürteltier (de) n, Armadill m (rare or scientific) Greek: αρμαντίλλο n pl (armantíllo) Guerrero Amuzgo: kíchio' Hebrew: אַרְמָדִיל (he) m (armadíl) Hindi: आर्माडिलो (ārmāḍilo) Hungarian: tatu (hu), övesállat, armadilló Hunsrik: Tattu m Icelandic: beltisdýr n Ido: armadilo (io) Indonesian: trenggiling (id), armadilo Irish: armadailín m Isthmus Zapotec: ngupi Italian: armadillo (it) m Japanese: アルマジロ (ja) (arumajiro) Kari'na: kapasi Kazakh: сауытты аң (sauytty añ), кіреукей (kıreukei) Korean: 아르마딜로 (ko) (areumadillo) Latvian: bruņnesis m Lithuanian: šarvuotis m Lokono: andadike, jesi, jesere Macedonian: оклопник m (oklopnik) Malay: armadillo Maléku Jaíka: lenhífa Manx: armadillo m Nahuatl: Central Nahuatl: ayotochtli Classical Nahuatl: ayotochtli Orizaba Nahuatl: ayotochin Navajo: kááʼtsʼiní Nheengatu: tatú Norwegian: Bokmål: beltedyr n Old Tupi: tatu Paumarí: tato f Persian: آرمادیلو (fa) (ârmâdilo) Polish: pancernik (pl) m Portuguese: tatu (pt) m Q'eqchi: ib'oy Quechua: Cusco Quechua: khirkinchu, khirki Classical Quechua: quiriquincho Romanian: tatu (ro) m Russian: бронено́сец (ru) m (bronenósec) Scottish Gaelic: armadillo m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пасанац m, армадѝло m Roman: pasanac m, armadìlo (sh) m Slovak: pásavec m Slovene: pasavec (sl) m Spanish: armadillo (es) m (Colombian and Mexican standard usage, Ecuador, Panama), armado (es) m (Guatemala), cachicamo (es) m (Colombian Llanos, Venezuela), carachupa (es) f (Peru), cusuco m (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua), gurre m (Colombia, especially rural usage), jerrejerre m (Colombian Caribbean Coast), mulita f (Argentina, Uruguay), pitero (es) m (Honduras), quirquincho (es) m (Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Western Argentina), tatú m (Eastern Bolivia, Northeastern Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay), toche (es) m (Eastern Mexico), tumulle m (Southern Ecuador) Sranan Tongo: kapasi Swahili: kakakuona Swedish: bälta (sv) c, bältdjur n Tagalog: armadilyo Thai: นิ่ม (th) (nîm) Tswana: kgaga Turkish: armadillo Ukrainian: бронено́сець (uk) m (bronenósecʹ) Uzbek: bronenosets (uz) Vietnamese: tatu Volapük: tatud Wapishana: kapashi Wayana: kapasi (Dasypus novemcinctus), mëlaimë (Priodontes maximus), lahpo (Cabassous unicinctus), latawa (Dasypus kappleri), lemu (Euphractus sexcinctus) Welsh: armadilo m, armellog m Yucatec Maya: weech Yuracare: dyolojoto Záparo: múraka

See also

• scute
• Xenarthra

Further reading

• armadillo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish armadillo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ər.məˈði.ʎu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ər.məˈði.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aɾ.maˈði.ʎo]

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Noun

armadillo m (plural armadillos)

1. armadillo

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish armadillo.

Noun

armadillo m (plural armadilli)

1. armadillo

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English armadillo, from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado (“armored”), in reference to its protective plates.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a(r)madilo/
• Rhymes: -ilo, -lo, -o

Noun

armadillo

1. armadillo

Spanish

Etymology

From armado (“armored”) +‎ -illo (“diminutive”), i.e. "little armored one".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /aɾmaˈdiʝo/ [aɾ.maˈð̞i.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): /aɾmaˈdiʝo/ [aɾ.maˈð̞i.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /aɾmaˈdiʎo/ [aɾ.maˈð̞i.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /aɾmaˈdiʃo/ [aɾ.maˈð̞i.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /aɾmaˈdiʒo/ [aɾ.maˈð̞i.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

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• Rhymes: -iʝo

• Rhymes: -iʝo (most of Spain and Latin America)
• Rhymes: -iʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -iʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -iʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Syllabification: ar‧ma‧di‧llo

Noun

armadillo m (plural armadillos)

1. armadillo

   Synonyms: (Mexican Indian) ayotoste, cachicamo

Derived terms

• armadillo andino
• armadillo de nueve bandas

Further reading

• “armadillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024