lontra

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

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

lontra f (plural lontre)

1. otter (Lutra lutra)

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

• londra

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.

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

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

• lóntrega

• 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

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

From a Vulgar Latin variant of Latin lutra.

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

lontra f (plural lontre)

1. otter

• → Sardinian: lontra

• 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

Borrowed from Italian lontra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔn.tra/

lontra f (plural lontri)

1. otter

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.^[1]

• Rhymes: -õtɾɐ
• Hyphenation: lon‧tra

lontra f (plural lontras)

1. otter

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.^[1] The apparent lack of dialectal variation, as well as the vowel /o/ for Latin /ŭ/, make a direct inheritance most unlikely.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlontra/

lontra f (plural lontras)

1. otter (Lutra lutra)

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