lutra

lutra (accusative singular lutran, plural lutraj, accusative plural lutrajn)

1. lutrine

• mamula (“mammalian”)

• lutro (“otter”)

• (Classical) lytra
• (Medieval) luter, lutrea, lutreus, lutrius, lutrum, lutrus

From Proto-Italic *utrā, from Proto-Indo-European *udréh₂, the feminine form of *udrós, from the root *wed-. The source of the initial l- is unclear. It may have arisen by connection with lavō (“wash”), lupus (“wolf”) (interpreting otters as "water wolves") or lūdō (“play”) (referring to the playfulness of otters).

Cognate with Ancient Greek ἐνυδρίς (enudrís), Sanskrit उद्र (udra), Lithuanian ūdra, English otter, Russian выдра (vydra).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.tra/, [ˈɫʊ.tra]

lutra f (genitive lutrae); first declension

1. an otter

First declension.

• lutrārius (Mediaeval Latin)
• lutrīnus (Mediaeval Latin)

• Corsican: lutra
• Old French: lutre
  • French: loutre
    • → Romanian: lutră
  • Walloon: lote
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: llóndriga, llóndrigu
• Italian: lontra
  • → Albanian: lundër, lëndër
• Neapolitan:

  Basilicata: utre

  Calabrian: ùtria, lùtria

  Salerno: nùtria

• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: llúdria, llúdriga
  • Occitan: loira
• Old Portuguese:
  • Galician: lontra, londra
  • Portuguese: lontra
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: lutria, nutria
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: lodre
  • Ladin: lontra
  • Romansch: lutra, ludra
• Sardinian: lontra
• Sicilian: lutra
  • → Maltese: lutra
• Venetian: lùdria, lodra
• → Hebrew: לוּטְרָה‎‎‎ (lútra)

• lūtra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lutra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lutra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

• ludra (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

From Latin lutra.

lutra f (plural lutras)

1. (Puter, Vallader) otter