loutre
French edit
Etymology edit
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).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
loutre f (plural loutres)
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Further reading edit
- “loutre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.