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eric

noun
/ˈɛɹɪk/

Etymology

From Middle English Eric, from Old English Eoric, from Old Norse Eirríkr, Eiríkr (from ei (“always, eternal”, see aye) + ríkr (“ruler”)), or from Proto-Germanic *Aizarīkijaz (from *aizō (“honor”) + *rīkijaz (“ruler”)). Less likely from einn (“sole, alone”) + ríkr (“ruler”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king”, cognate to Latin rēx and Gaulish *rīx). The name was in use in Anglo-Saxon Britain, reinforced by Scandinavian settlers before the Norman Conquest. Compare Danish Erik, German Erich. Possible doublet of Euric.

  1. derived from *rīks✻ — “king”
  2. derived from *Aizarīkijaz✻
  3. derived from Eirríkr
  4. inherited from Eoric
  5. inherited from Eric

Definitions

  1. A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.

    • The court-poets of Wales […] could demand an eric of ‘nine cows, and nine-score pence of money besides’.

  2. A male given name from the Germanic languages.

    • "What's your name?" "Eric - I mean Williams." "Then why don't you say what you mean?"
    • In 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold killed 12 of their fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives in the school library.

  3. Acronym of Education Resources Information Center.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Acronym of European Research Infrastructure Consortium.

    2. Acronym of Electronic Registration Information Center.

    3. Acronym of everybody reading in class (“a session in which pupils read books”).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for eric. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA