nutria

nutria

See also: nutría, nútria, and nutrią

English

Etymology

From Spanish nutria (“otter”), from Latin lutra.

Noun

nutria (countable and uncountable, plural nutrias)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) The coypu, Myocastor coypus.
2. The fur of the coypu.

Descendants

• → Danish: nutria
• → Japanese: ヌートリア (nūtoria)
• → Korean: 뉴트리아 (nyuteuria)

Translations

coypu — see coypu

Anagrams

• taurin

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Danish

Etymology

From English nutria.

Noun

nutria

1. coypu, nutria
   • 1964, Aage Aagesen, Sydamerika

     På pampaen findes bl. a. bæltedyr, opossum, nandu, stinkdyr og hjorte. Ved vandløbene er nutriaen hyppig.

2. the fur thereof
   • 1957, Aage Dons, De åbne arme, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     Under Nutriaen bar hun en smaablomstret Silke imprimé Kjole,^[sic] ...

     Under the nutria, she wore a ? with small flowers on it, ...

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Finnish

Etymology

From Spanish nutria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnutriɑ/, [ˈnut̪riɑ]
• Rhymes: -utriɑ
• Syllabification^(key): nut‧ri‧a

Noun

nutria

1. coypu

Declension

Inflection of nutria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		nutria	nutriat
genitive		nutrian	nutrioiden nutrioitten
partitive		nutriaa	nutrioita
illative		nutriaan	nutrioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		nutria	nutriat
accusative	nom.	nutria	nutriat
	gen.	nutrian
genitive		nutrian	nutrioiden nutrioitten nutriainrare
partitive		nutriaa	nutrioita
inessive		nutriassa	nutrioissa
elative		nutriasta	nutrioista
illative		nutriaan	nutrioihin
adessive		nutrialla	nutrioilla
ablative		nutrialta	nutrioilta
allative		nutrialle	nutrioille
essive		nutriana	nutrioina
translative		nutriaksi	nutrioiksi
instructive		—	nutrioin
abessive		nutriatta	nutrioitta
comitative		—	nutrioineen

Possessive forms of nutria (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	nutriani	nutriamme
2nd person	nutriasi	nutrianne
3rd person	nutriansa

Anagrams

• anturi, riutan, rutina, tunari, turina, uritan

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnu.tri.a/
• Rhymes: -utria
• Hyphenation: nù‧tri‧a

Noun

nutria f (plural nutrie)

1. coypu, nutria

   Synonym: castorino

Anagrams

• anturi

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Polish

nutria

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish nutria, from Latin lutra, from Proto-Italic *utrā, from Proto-Indo-European *udréh₂, the feminine form of *udrós, from the root *wed-. Doublet of hydra (“hydra”) and wydra (“otter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnut.rja/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -utrja
• Syllabification: nut‧ria

Noun

nutria f

1. coypu, Myocastor coypus

Declension

Declension of nutria

	singular	plural
nominative	nutria	nutrie
genitive	nutrii	nutrii/nutryj (archaic)
dative	nutrii	nutriom
accusative	nutrię	nutrie
instrumental	nutrią	nutriami
locative	nutrii	nutriach
vocative	nutrio	nutrie

Derived terms

adjective

• nutriowy

 

Further reading

• nutria in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• nutria in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Verb

nutria

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of nutrir

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• lutria (archaic)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *nutria or *lutria / *lutrea, from Latin lutra, from Proto-Italic *utrā, from Proto-Indo-European *udréh₂, the feminine form of *udrós, from the root *wed-. The Spanish word, preserving the -t-, may have arrived through the intermediate of either Mozarabic or more likely a Southern Italian language or dialect: cf. Salerno dialect (of Neapolitan) nùtria, Calabrian ùtria and lùtria, utre in Basilicata, etc. The Vulgar Latin form was likely influenced by Ancient Greek ἐνυδρίς (enudrís)[1]. Compare also Catalan llúdria, Portuguese lontra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnutɾja/ [ˈnu.t̪ɾja]

• Audio (Spain)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -utɾja
• Syllabification: nu‧tria

Noun

nutria f (plural nutrias)

1. otter
2. (Argentina) nutria, coypu

   Synonym: coipo

Derived terms

• civeta nutria
• nutria gigante

 

Descendants

• → Belarusian: нутрыя (nutryja)
• → Czech: nutrie
• → English: nutria
  • → Danish: nutria
  • → Japanese: ヌートリア (nūtoria)
  • → Korean: 뉴트리아 (nyuteuria)
• → Finnish: nutria
• → German: Nutria
• → Italian: nutria
• → Lithuanian: nutrija
• → Macedonian: нутрија (nutrija)
• → Polish: nutria
• → Portuguese: nútria
• → Russian: нутрия (nutrija)
• → Slovak: nutria
• → Ukrainian: нутрія (nutrija)

References

1. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Further reading

• “nutria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014