loutre
French
Etymology
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).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lutʁ/
Audio (file)
Noun
loutre f (plural loutres)
- otter
Derived terms
- loutre commune
- loutre de mer
- loutre d'Europe
- loutre européenne
Descendants
- → Romanian: lutră
- → Turkish: lutr
Further reading
- “loutre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- ourlet, rotule