itria

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈi.trja/
  • Rhymes: -itrja
  • Hyphenation: ì‧tria

Noun

itria f (plural itrie) (Norcia, Trevi, Muccia, dialectal)[1]

  1. Alternative form of lontra

References
  1. 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

Sicilian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From a conflation of Latin lutra (“otter”) and Ancient Greek ἔνυδρις (énudris, “otter”).

Noun

itria f (plural itri) (uncommon outside central Calabria)

  1. otter (Lutra lutra)
    Synonym: zinnapòtamu

Descendants

References
  • 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
  • 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
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