# chorizo
## English
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chŏrēʹzō, IPA: /t͡ʃɒˈɹiː.zəʊ/ or like Spanish: /t͡ʃɒˈɹiːsəʊ/, /t͡ʃɒˈɹiːθəʊ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) enPR: chərēʹzō, IPA: /t͡ʃəˈɹi.zoʊ/ or like Spanish: /t͡ʃoʊˈɹisoʊ/, /tʃəˈɹisoʊ/, /t͡ʃoʊˈɹiθoʊ/
* (British, Ireland, proscribed) enPR: chəritsō, IPA: /t͡ʃəˈɹɪtsəʊ/ or /t͡ʃəˈɹi.tsəʊ/

### Noun

chorizo (countable and uncountable, plural chorizos)
* A spicy Spanish sausage flavoured with paprika, often crumbled for use in filling tacos, quesadillas, etc.
    Synonym: Spanish sausage
** 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.

#### Related terms

* chouriço, chaurice

#### Further reading

* chorizo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### 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 2 “chorizo”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* 1 2 3 “chorizo”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃɔ.ʁi.zo/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

chorizo m (plural chorizos)
* chorizo

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

chorizo m (plural chorizos)
* a type of sausage
* (Uruguay) a foolish person
    Synonym: longaniza
* (vulgar, slang) a penis
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene
* (slang, Costa Rica) corruption
    Synonym: corrupción

##### Derived terms

* choripán
* choriqueso
* chorizar

##### Descendants

* → Basque: txorizo
* → Catalan: xoriço
* → English: chorizo
* → French: chorizo
* → Swedish: chorizo
* → Tagalog: tsoriso

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

chorizo m (plural chorizos)
* (Spain) a crook
* (Spain, Mexico, Chile, colloquial) petty thief, pickpocket
    Synonyms: choro, ratero, ladronzuelo, carterista

#### Adjective

chorizo (feminine choriza, masculine plural chorizos, feminine plural chorizas)
* (vulgar, Chile) stuck-up, haughty

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

chorizo
* first-person singular present indicative of chorizar

### References

* ↑ Martins Estêvez, Higino. Germanismos pouco estudados do Galego-Português.
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “chorizo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 392

### Further reading

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

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɕoˈritso/, /ɕoˈriːso/

### Noun

chorizo c
* chorizo

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | chorizo | chorizos |
| singular | definite | chorizon | chorizons |
| plural | indefinite | chorizor | chorizors |
| plural | definite | chorizorna | chorizornas |
| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | chorizo | chorizos |
| singular | definite | chorizoen | chorizoens |
| plural | indefinite | chorizoer | chorizoers |
| plural | definite | chorizoerna | chorizoernas |

#### Declension

* chorizo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* chorizo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)