veltro

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Italian

Etymology

From Old French veltre.

Pronunciation

Noun

veltro m (plural veltri, feminine veltra) (literary)

  1. greyhound (male)
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 100–102; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Molti son li animali a cui s’ammoglia,
      e più saranno ancora, infin che ’l veltro
      verrà, che la farà morir con doglia.
      Many are the animals with which she mates, and many more there will be, until the greyhound comes, who will make her die in pain.
    • 1887, Giosuè Carducci, “La leggenda di Teodorico [The Legend of Theodoric]”, in Rime nuove [New Rhymes]‎, collected in Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, Book 6, page 696, lines 45–46:
      Ma i suoi veltri ebber timore
      E si misero a guair
      But his greyhounds got scared, and started whining

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