otre
See also: otrę
Italian
un otre — a wineskin
Etymology
From Latin uter, from earlier *udris, from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈo.tre/
- Rhymes: -otre
- Hyphenation: ó‧tre
Noun
otre m (plural otri)
- leather bottle; waterskin or wineskin
- 1825, Vincenzo Monti, transl., “Libro III [Book 3]”, in Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, 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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Derived terms
- otricello
Anagrams
- -tore, Orte, erto, rote
Middle English
Noun
otre
- Alternative form of oter
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- otere, otrer
Noun
otre m
- indefinite plural of oter
Tarantino
Adjective
otre
- other