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Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
itria f (plural itrie) (Norcia, Trevi, Muccia, dialectal)[1]
- Alternative form of lontra
References
- ^ AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 440: “la lontra” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Sicilian
Etymology
From a conflation of Latin lutra (“otter”) and Ancient Greek ἔνυδρις (énudris, “otter”).
Noun
itria f (plural itri) (uncommon outside central Calabria)
- otter (Lutra lutra)
- Synonym: zinnapòtamu
Descendants
References
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 440: “la lontra” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “itria”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2160
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “itria”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 2, pages 366–367
- Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “itria”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 478