batraci
Catalan
Etymology
From Ancient Greek [Term?].
Noun
batraci m (plural batracis)
- frog or salamander, batrachian
- 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 3, in La pell freda, La Campana:
- Sis, set braços movent-se com tentacles, rere els quals ululaven cares d'un inframón de batracis, ulls com ous, ninetes com agulles, forats per narius, sense celles, sense llavis, la boca gran.
- Six, seven arms moving around like tentacles, behind which wailed faces from an batrachian underworld, eyes like eggs, pupils like needles, pierced by noses, without eyebrows, without lips, the mouths big.
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Further reading
- “batraci” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “batracis” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “batraci” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “batraci” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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