nutria

English

Etymology

From Spanish nutria (“otter”), from Latin lutra.

Noun

nutria (countable and uncountable, plural nutrias)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) The coypu, Myocastor coypus.
   • 1986, Identifying and Managing Aquatic Rodents in Texas, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, page 13,

     Nutria are native to South America and were successfully established in North America in the early 1930s as a new furbearing species.

   • 2000, National Wetlands Newsletter, Volumes 22-23, Environmental Law Institute, page 8:

     Furthermore, nutria engage in the outright destruction of muskrat lodges to create nesting habitat for themselves.

2. The fur of the coypu.

Derived terms

• nutria rat

Descendants

• → Danish: nutria
• → Japanese: ヌートリア (nūtoria)
• → Korean: 뉴트리아 (nyuteuria)

Translations

Anagrams

• taurin

Danish

Etymology

From English nutria.

Noun

nutria

1. coypu, nutria
   • 1964, Aage Aagesen, Sydamerika:

     På pampaen findes bl. a. bæltedyr, opossum, nandu, stinkdyr og hjorte. Ved vandløbene er nutriaen hyppig.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. the fur thereof
   • 1957, Aage Dons, De åbne arme, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     Under Nutriaen bar hun en smaablomstret Silke imprimé Kjole, ...

     Under the nutria, she wore a ? with small flowers on it, ...

Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish nutria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnutriɑ/,
• Rhymes: -utriɑ
• Syllabification^(key): nut‧ri‧a

Noun

nutria

1. coypu

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “nutria”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

• anturi, riutan, rutina, tunari, turina, uritan

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

nutria

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnu.tri.a/
• Rhymes: -utria
• Hyphenation: nù‧tri‧a

Noun

nutria f (plural nutrie)

1. coypu, nutria

   Synonym: castorino

Anagrams

• anturi

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

nutria

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish nutria. Doublet of hydra and wydra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnut.rja/

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• Rhymes: -utrja
• Syllabification: nut‧ria

Noun

nutria f (related adjective nutriowy)

1. nutria (any mammal of the genus Myocastor)
2. coypu, nutria (Myocastor coypus)

   Synonym: nutria amerykańska

3. coypu fur

Declension

Further reading

• nutria in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• nutria in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• nutria in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Verb

nutria

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of nutrir

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

nutria

Wikipedia ^es

Alternative forms

• lutria (archaic)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *nutria or *lutria / *lutrea, from Latin lutra. The Spanish word, preserving the -t-, may have arrived through the intermediate of either Mozarabic or more likely a Southern Italian language or dialect: cf. Salerno dialect (of Neapolitan) nùtria, Calabrian ùtria and lùtria, utre in Basilicata, etc. The Vulgar Latin form was likely influenced by Ancient Greek ἔνυδρις (énudris). Compare also Catalan llúdria, Portuguese lontra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnutɾja/
• Rhymes: -utɾja
• Syllabification: nu‧tria

Noun

nutria f (plural nutrias)

1. otter
2. (Argentina) nutria, coypu

   Synonym: coipo

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Belarusian: нутрыя (nutryja)
• → Czech: nutrie
• → English: nutria
  • → Danish: nutria
  • → Japanese: ヌートリア (nūtoria)
  • → Korean: 뉴트리아 (nyuteuria)
• → Finnish: nutria
• → German: Nutria
• → Italian: nutria
• → Lithuanian: nutrija
• → Macedonian: нутрија (nutrija)
• → Polish: nutria
• → Portuguese: nútria
• → Russian: нутрия (nutrija)
• → Slovak: nutria
• → Ukrainian: нутрія (nutrija)

References

Further reading

• “nutria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014