Translingual

Lutra lutra

Proper noun

Lutra f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Mustelidae – Old World river otters.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort; Eutheria - infraclass; Epitheria - magnorder; Laurasiatheria - superorder; Carnivora - order; Caniformia - suborder; Mustelidae - family; Lutrinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Lutra lutra (European otter) - type species; †Lutra nippon (Japanese otter), Lutra sumatrana (hairy-nosed otter) - species

Esperanto

Adjective

lutra ‎(accusative singular lutran, plural lutraj, accusative plural lutrajn)

1. lutrine

Related terms

• lutro ‎(“otter”)

Hypernyms

• mamula ‎(“mammalian”)

Latin

lūtra (an otter)

Alternative forms

• (Classical): lūtra, lȳtra
• (Mediaeval): lūter, lūtrea, lūtreus, lūtrius, lūtrum, lūtrus

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *udréh₂, the feminine form of *udrós, from the root *wed-. The source of the initial l- is unclear. It may have arisen by connection with lavō ‎(“wash”), lupus ‎(“wolf”) (interpreting otters as "water wolves") or lūdō ‎(“play”) (referring to the playfulness of otters).

Cognate with Ancient Greek ὕδρα ‎(húdra), Sanskrit उद्र ‎(udra), Lithuanian ūdra, English otter, Russian выдра ‎(vydra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.tra/, [ˈɫʊ.tra]

Noun

lutra f ‎(genitive lutrae); first declension

1. an otter

Declension

First declension.

Derived terms

• lutrārius (Mediaeval Latin)
• lutrīnus (Mediaeval Latin)

Descendants

References

• lūtra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• LUTRA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lutra”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• ludra (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Etymology

From Latin lutra.

Noun

lutra f (plural lutras)

1. (Puter, Vallader) otter