veltra

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛl.tra/
• Rhymes: -ɛltra
• Hyphenation: vèl‧tra

Noun

veltra f (plural veltre) (literary, rare)

1. female equivalent of veltro (“greyhound”)
   • 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata quarta – Novella sesta”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron‎^[1], Bari: Laterza, 1927:

     Ed appresso questo, mi pareva che […] uscisse non so di che parte una veltra nera come carbone, […]

     And presently meseemed that there came forth, I knew not whence, a greyhound bitch, black as coal.