lontra

See also: Lontra

Corsican

Una lontra.

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin variant of Latin lutra. Cognates include Italian lontra, French loutre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlõntra/
• Hyphenation: lon‧tra

Noun

lontra f (plural lontre)

1. otter (Lutra lutra)

References

• “lontra” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Galician

Galician lontras ("otters")

Alternative forms

• londra

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese *lontra, from a Vulgar Latin variant of Latin lutra. Attested from 1439 (per the quote below). Compare Portuguese lontra, Spanish nutria; also Asturian llóndriga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlontɾa/ [ˈlon̪.t̪ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -ontɾa
• Hyphenation: lon‧tra

Noun

lontra f (plural lontras)

1. otter
   • 1439, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 420:

     da pelica da marta, hua branca, et da lontra, dous diñeiros, et da raposa, hun diñeiro

     a marten pelt, a branca [coin]; and of otter, two diñeiros; and of fox, a diñeiro

Derived terms

• lóntrega

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “lontra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lontra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “lontra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Italian

Alternative forms

• lontro, ontria (dialectal, Tuscan)
• londra, ondra, ondria, itria, litria (dialectal, central Italian)

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin variant of Latin lutra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlon.tra/
• Rhymes: -ontra
• Hyphenation: lón‧tra

Noun

lontra f (plural lontre)

1. otter

Descendants

• → Sardinian: lontra

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 440: “la lontra” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian lontra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔn.tra/

Noun

lontra f (plural lontri)

1. otter

Portuguese

lontra (Lutra lutra)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese *lontra, from a Vulgar Latin variant of Latin lutra. First attested in Gil Vicente's Auto das Fadas. Cf. also Old Galician-Portuguese luntria, attested in 1253.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlõ.tɾɐ/

• Rhymes: -õtɾɐ
• Hyphenation: lon‧tra

Noun

lontra f (plural lontras)

1. otter

Sardinian

Etymology

Probably a recent borrowing from Italian lontra, from a variant of Latin lutra. Wagner's Dizionario etimologico sardo (1960's) has no such entry, and the AIS (1920's) records no word for 'otter' in any part of Sardinia. The apparent lack of dialectal variation, as well as the vowel /o/ for Latin /ŭ/, make a direct inheritance most unlikely.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlontra/

Noun

lontra f (plural lontras)

1. otter (Lutra lutra)

References

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) “lontra”, in Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes