otre

See also: otrę

Italian
un otre — a wineskin

Etymology

From Latin utrem, accusative of uter, from earlier *udris, from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈo.tre/, [ˈoːt̪r̺e]
  • Stress: ótre
  • Hyphenation: o‧tre

Noun

otre m (plural otri)

  1. leather bottle; waterskin or wineskin
    • 1825, Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, Book III, lines 323–327, page 70:
      Venían recando i banditori intanto ¶ Dalle città le sacre ostie di pace, ¶ Due trascelti agnelletti, e della terra ¶ Giocondo frutto generoso vino ¶ Chiuso in otre caprigno.
      Meanwhile the announcers were coming, bringing the sacred peace offerings from the cities: two carefully picked lambs, and generous wine, pleasant harvest of the soil, sealed in a goat wineskin

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Noun

otre

  1. Alternative form of oter

Tarantino

Adjective

otre

  1. other
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