loutre
Meaning
otter
Concepts
otter
otters
European otter
Lutrinae
subfamily Lutrinae
Lutra
genus Lutra
crepuscular
European river otter
Eurasian otter
Eurasian river otter
common otter
old world otter
oter
Frequency
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/lutʁ/
Etymology
Inherited from Old French lutre, from Latin lutra. In Old French, there were variants leurre (which is the normal phonetic result) and loirre (from a Vulgar Latin form *lutria, influenced by Ancient Greek ἔνυδρις (énudris); cf. Occitan luria, Catalan llúdria, Spanish lutria, nutria). The standard modern form loutre probably maintained the -t- due to influence from Frankish and Germanic (compare Dutch and English otter, German Otter).
Cognate with Catalan
llúdria
Cognate with Spanish
lutria
Cognate with English
otter
Cognate with German
Otter
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