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Webster 1913 Edition

Eric

{

Er′i-ach

,

Er′ic

, }

Noun.

[Ir.

eiric

.]

(Old Irish Law)

A recompense formerly given by a murderer to the relatives of the murdered person.

Definition 2024

Eric

Eric

See also: eric and Éric

English

Alternative forms

Erik
Erick

Proper noun

Eric

A male given name.
- 1859 Frederic William Farrar: Eric, or Little by Little: A Tale of Roslyn School. Chapter II:
  "What's your name?" "Eric - I mean Williams." "Then why don't you say what you mean?"
- 1959 Roentgens, Rads and Riddles: A Symposium on Supervoltage Radiation Therapy. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission 1959. page 71:
  Mark it. Professor Roberts does not like the name Eric. This happens to be one of his given names, and it is a very honorable one. Eric was the first Viking explorer of the North American continent, and this ERIC we hope will be an explorer in the fields of complex therapy.

Related terms

feminine forms: Erica, Erika

Translations

male given name

Arabic: إِرِيك m ‎(ʾirīk)
Armenian: Էրիկ ‎(Ērik)
Belarusian: Э́рык m ‎(Éryk)
Bengali: এরিক ‎(erik)
Catalan: Èric m
Cherokee: ᎡᎵᎩ ‎(eligi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 艾里克 ‎(ài lǐ kè)
Czech: Erik m
Danish: Erik c
Dutch: Erik (nl)
Esperanto: Eriko
Estonian: Erik, Eerik
Faroese: Eirikur m
Finnish: Eerik (fi) (historical), Eero (fi), Erkki (fi) (given name)
French: Éric (fr)
Galician: Eurico
Georgian: ერიქ ‎(erik)
German: Erich (de)
Greenlandic: Eerik
Hindi: एरिक m ‎(ērika)
Hungarian: Erik (hu)
Icelandic: Eiríkur (is) m
Italian: Erico (it)

Japanese: エリック ‎(erikku)
Korean: 에릭 ‎(erik)
Latin: Ericus, Euricus
Latvian: Ēriks
Lithuanian: Erikas (lt)
Norwegian: Erik (no) m, Eirik (no) m
Old Norse: Eiríkr m
Polish: Eryk (pl)
Portuguese: Érico
Punjabi: ਐਰਿਕ m ‎(airika)
Russian: Э́рик (ru) ‎(Érik)
Serbo-Croatian: Erik
Slovak: Erik m
Slovene: Êrik (sl) m
Spanish: Erico (es) m
Swedish: Erik (sv) c
Turkish: Erik (tr)
Ukrainian: Е́рік m ‎(Érik)

Anagrams

rice, Rice, RICE

German

Proper noun

Eric

A male given name, variant of Erich borrowed from English or from French Éric.

Swedish

Proper noun

Eric

A male given name, a less common spelling of Erik.

eric

eric

See also: Eric and Éric

English

Noun

eric ‎(plural erics)

A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.
- 1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber & Faber 1999, p. 18:
  The court-poets of Wales [...] could demand an eric of ‘nine cows, and nine-score pence of money besides’.

Related terms

eriach

References

OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

rice, Rice, RICE