loutre

From Old French lutre, from Latin lutra, from Proto-Italic *utrā, from Proto-Indo-European *udréh₂, the feminine form of *udrós, from the root *wed-. In Old French, there were variants leurre (which is the normal phonetic result) and loirre (from a Vulgar Latin form *lutria, influenced by Ancient Greek ἐνυδρίς (enudrís); cf. Occitan luria, Catalan llúdria, Spanish lutria, nutria). The standard modern form loutre probably maintained the -t- due to influence from Frankish and Germanic (compare Dutch and English otter, German Otter).

• IPA^(key): /lutʁ/

loutre f (plural loutres)

1. otter

• → Romanian: lutră

• “loutre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• ourlet
• rotule