Editing Armadillo (section)

==Etymology==
The word {{Lang|es|armadillo}} means {{Gloss|little armored one}} in Spanish;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dle.rae.es/armadillo|title=armadillo, armadilla &#124; Definición &#124; Diccionario de la lengua española &#124; RAE - ASALE|accessdate=4 April 2023|archive-date=30 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330112612/https://dle.rae.es/armadillo|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=armadillo {{!}} Etymology, origin and meaning of armadillo by etymonline |url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/armadillo |access-date=2023-03-28 |website=www.etymonline.com |language=en |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328122727/https://www.etymonline.com/word/armadillo |url-status=live }}</ref> it is derived from {{Lang|es|armadura}} {{Gloss|armor}}, with the diminutive suffix {{Lang|es|-illo}} attached. While the phrase ''little armored one'' would translate to {{Lang|es|armadito}} normally, the suffix {{Lang|es|-illo}} can be used in place of {{Lang|es|-ito}} when the diminutive is used in an approximative tense.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bourne |first1=Julián |last2=Díaz Dueñas |first2=Mercedes |title=The Use of the Diminutive Suffixes ''-ito/a'' and ''-illo/a'' in the Spanish Translation of ''The Fifth Child'' by Doris Lessing |journal=Hikma |date=2019 |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=113–180 |publisher=[[University of Córdoba (Spain)|University of Córdoba Press]] |doi=10.21071/hikma.v18i1.11197 |hdl=10396/19475 |s2cid=194628023 |language=en |issn=1579-9794|doi-access=free |hdl-access=free }}</ref> The [[Aztecs]] called them {{Lang|nah-latn|āyōtōchtli}} {{IPA|nah|aːjoːˈtoːt͡ʃt͡ɬi|}}, [[Nahuatl]] for {{Gloss|turtle-rabbit}}: {{Lang|nah-latn|āyōtl}} {{IPA|nah|ˈaːjoːt͡ɬ|}} {{Gloss|turtle}} and {{Lang|nah-latn|tōchtli}} {{IPA|nah|ˈtoːt͡ʃt͡ɬi|}} {{Gloss|rabbit}}.<ref name=Karttunen1983>{{cite book |last=Karttunen |first=Frances E. |author-link=Frances E. Karttunen |title=An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl |url=https://archive.org/details/analyticaldictio00kart |url-access=limited |year=1983 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=978-0-8061-2421-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/analyticaldictio00kart/page/n25 17] }} View entry at [http://whp.uoregon.edu/dictionaries/nahuatl/index.lasso?&dowhat=FindJustOne&theRecID=1763926&theWord=ayotoch. "ayotoch"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304210527/http://whp.uoregon.edu/dictionaries/nahuatl/index.lasso?&dowhat=FindJustOne&theRecID=1763926&theWord=ayotoch. |date=4 March 2016 }} in ''Nahuatl Dictionary'', by the Wired Humanities Projects, Stephanie Wood (ed.) Retrieved 2015-07-22.</ref> The [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] word for {{Gloss|armadillo}} is {{Lang|pt|tatu}} which is derived from the [[Tupi language]]<ref>FERREIRA, A.B.H. ''Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa''. Segunda edição. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira, 1986. p. 1 653</ref> {{Lang|tpn-latn|ta'}} {{Gloss|bark, armor}} and {{Lang|tpn-latn|tu}} {{Gloss|dense}};<ref>{{cite book|last=Chiaradia|first=Clóvis|title=Dicionário de Palavras Brasileiras de Origem Indígena|publisher=Limiar|isbn=9788588075337|year=2008|location=São Paulo}}</ref> and used in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay; similar names are also found in other, especially European, languages.

Other various vernacular names given are:
{{div col}}
* {{lang|es|quirquincho}} (from {{langx|qu|kirkinchu}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dle.rae.es/quirquincho|title=quirquincho|access-date=27 Jan 2023|publisher=[[Real Academia Española]]|website=[[Diccionario de la lengua española]]|archive-date=7 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307041218/https://dle.rae.es/quirquincho|url-status=live}}</ref>) in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Peru;
* {{lang|es|cuzuco}} (from [[Nahuatl]]) in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua;
* {{lang|es|mulita}} in Argentina and Uruguay;
* {{lang|es|peludo}} in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay;
* {{lang|es|piche}} in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Paraguay;
* {{lang|es|cachicamo}} in Colombia and Venezuela
* {{lang|es-co|gurre}} in [[Tolima Department|Tolima]], [[Caldas Department|Caldas]] and [[Antioquia Department|Antioquia]], Colombia;
* {{lang|es-co|jerre-jerre}} in Caribbean Colombia;
* {{lang|es-mx|jueche}} in southeast Mexico;
* {{lang|es-mx|toche}} in the state of [[Veracruz]], Mexico;
* {{lang|es-pe|carachupa}} in Perú. 
{{div col end}}