nutria
التعريفات والمعاني
== English ==
=== Etymology ===
From Spanish nutria (“otter”), from Latin lutra.
=== Pronunciation ===
=== Noun ===
nutria (countable and uncountable, plural nutrias)
(chiefly Canada, US) The coypu, Myocastor coypus.
1986, Identifying and Managing Aquatic Rodents in Texas, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, page 13,
Nutria are native to South America and were successfully established in North America in the early 1930s as a new furbearing species.
The fur of the coypu.
==== Derived terms ====
nutria rat
==== Descendants ====
→ Danish: nutria
→ Japanese: ヌートリア (nūtoria)
→ Korean: 뉴트리아 (nyuteuria)
==== Translations ====
=== Anagrams ===
taurin
== Danish ==
=== Etymology ===
From English nutria.
=== Noun ===
nutria
coypu, nutria
the fur thereof
== Finnish ==
=== Etymology ===
From Spanish nutria.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈnutriɑ/, [ˈnut̪riɑ̝]
Rhymes: -utriɑ
Syllabification(key): nut‧ri‧a
Hyphenation(key): nut‧ria
=== Noun ===
nutria
coypu, nutria
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
=== Further reading ===
“nutria”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
=== Anagrams ===
anturi, riutan, rutina, tunari, turina, uritan
== Italian ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈnu.tri.a/
Rhymes: -utria
Hyphenation: nù‧tri‧a
=== Noun ===
nutria f (plural nutrie)
coypu, nutria
Synonym: castorino
=== Anagrams ===
anturi
== Polish ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Spanish nutria. Doublet of hydra and wydra.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈnu.trja/
Rhymes: -utrja
Syllabification: nu‧tria
=== Noun ===
nutria f (related adjective nutriowy)
nutria (any mammal of the genus Myocastor)
coypu, nutria (Myocastor coypus)
Synonym: nutria amerykańska
coypu fur
==== Declension ====
=== Further reading ===
nutria in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
nutria in Polish dictionaries at PWN
nutria in PWN's encyclopedia
== Portuguese ==
=== Pronunciation ===
Hyphenation: nu‧tri‧a
=== Verb ===
nutria
first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of nutrir
== Spanish ==
=== Alternative forms ===
lutria, nutra
ludria (Spain)
=== Etymology ===
From Vulgar Latin *nutria or *lutria / *lutrea, from Latin lutra. The Spanish word, preserving the -t-, may have arrived through the intermediate of either Mozarabic or more likely a Southern Italian language or dialect: cf. Salerno dialect (of Neapolitan) nùtria, Calabrian ùtria and lùtria, utre in Basilicata, etc. The Vulgar Latin form was likely influenced by Ancient Greek ἔνυδρις (énudris). Compare also Catalan llúdria, Portuguese lontra.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈnutɾja/ [ˈnu.t̪ɾja]
Rhymes: -utɾja
Syllabification: nu‧tria
=== Noun ===
nutria f (plural nutrias)
otter
(Rioplatense) nutria, coypu
Synonym: coipo
==== Derived terms ====
==== Descendants ====
→ Belarusian: нутрыя (nutryja)
→ Czech: nutrie
→ English: nutria→ Danish: nutria→ Japanese: ヌートリア (nūtoria)→ Korean: 뉴트리아 (nyuteuria)
→ Finnish: nutria
→ German: Nutria
→ Italian: nutria
→ Lithuanian: nutrija
→ Macedonian: нутрија (nutrija)
→ Polish: nutria
→ Portuguese: nútria
→ Russian: нутрия (nutrija)
→ Slovak: nutria
→ Ukrainian: нутрія (nutrija)
=== References ===
=== Further reading ===
“nutria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025