itria

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.trja/
• Rhymes: -itrja
• Hyphenation: ì‧tria

Noun

itria f (plural itrie) (Norcia, Trevi, Muccia, dialectal)

1. Alternative form of lontra

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• litria
• lutra, utra

Etymology

From a conflation of Latin lutra (“otter”) and Ancient Greek ἔνυδρις (énudris, “otter”).

Noun

itria f (plural itri) (uncommon outside central Calabria)

1. otter (Lutra lutra)

   Synonym: zinnapòtamu

Descendants

• see: lutra

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 440: “la lontra” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Traina, Antonino (1868) “itria”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2160
• Pasqualino (c. 1790) “itria”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 2, pages 366–367
• Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “itria”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 478