veltro
See also: Veltro
Italian
Etymology
From Old French veltre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɛl.tro/
- Rhymes: -ɛltro
- Hyphenation: vèl‧tro
Noun
veltro m (plural veltri, feminine veltra) (literary)
- greyhound (male)
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XIII, lines 124–126, page 202:
- Di rietro a loro era la selva piena ¶ di nere cagne, bramose e correnti ¶ come veltri ch'uscisser di catena.
- Behind them was the forest full of black ¶ she-mastiffs, ravenous, and swift of foot ¶ as greyhounds, who are issuing from the chain.
- 1887, Giosuè Carducci, “La leggenda di Teodorico [The Legend of Theodoric]”, in Rime nuove [New Rhymes], collected in Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, Book 6, lines 45–46, page 696:
- Ma i suoi veltri ebber timore ¶ E si misero a guair
- But his greyhounds got scared, and started whining
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Hypernyms
- cane