otre

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See also: otrę

Franco-Provençal

Pronunciation

Adjective

otre (feminine otre, plural otre) (Beaujolais, Graphie de Conflans)

  1. Alternative form of ôtro (“other”)

References

  • otre in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Italian

un otre — a wineskin

Etymology

From Latin uter, from earlier *udris, from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈo.tre/
  • Rhymes: -otre
  • Hyphenation: ó‧tre

Noun

otre m (plural otri)

  1. leather bottle; waterskin or wineskin
    • 1825, “Libro III [Book 3]”, in Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, page 70, lines 323–327:
      Venían recando i banditori intanto
      Dalle città le sacre ostie di pace,
      Due trascelti agnelletti, e della terra
      Giocondo frutto generoso vino
      Chiuso in otre caprigno. […]
      Meanwhile the announcers were coming, bringing the sacred peace offerings from the cities: two carefully picked lambs, and generous wine, pleasant harvest of the soil, sealed in a goat wineskin

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Middle English

Noun

otre

  1. Alternative form of oter

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

otre m

  1. indefinite plural of oter

Tarantino

Etymology

Inherited from Latin alter. False cognate of English other.

Adjective

otre

  1. other
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