loutre

== French == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French lutre, from Latin lutra. In Old French, there were variants leurre (which is the normal phonetic result) and loirre (from a Vulgar Latin form *lutria, influenced by Ancient Greek ἔνυδρις (énudris); cf. Occitan luria, Catalan llúdria, Spanish lutria, nutria). The standard modern form loutre probably maintained the -t- due to influence from Frankish and Germanic (compare Dutch and English otter, German Otter). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /lutʁ/ === Noun === loutre f (plural loutres) otter ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Romanian: lutră → Turkish: lutr === Further reading === “loutre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === ourlet, rotule