# lontra
## Corsican
### Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin variant of Latin lutra. Cognates include Italian lontra, French loutre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlõntra/
* Hyphenation: lon‧tra

### Noun

lontra f (plural lontre)
* otter (Lutra lutra)

### References

* “lontra” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* londra

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese *lontra, from a Vulgar Latin variant of Latin lutra. Attested from 1439 (per the quote below). Compare Portuguese lontra, Spanish nutria; also Asturian llóndriga.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlontɾa/ [ˈlon̪.t̪ɾɐ]
* Rhymes: -ontɾa
* Hyphenation: lon‧tra

### Noun

lontra f (plural lontras)
* otter
** 1439, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 420:da pelica da marta, hua branca, et da lontra, dous diñeiros, et da raposa, hun diñeiroa marten pelt, a branca [coin]; and of otter, two diñeiros; and of fox, a diñeiro

#### Derived terms

* lóntrega

### References

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “lontra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lontra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “lontra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* lontro, ontria (dialectal, Tuscan)
* londra, ondra, ondria, itria, litria (dialectal, central Italian)

### Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin variant of Latin lutra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlon.tra/
* Rhymes: -ontra
* Hyphenation: lón‧tra

### Noun

lontra f (plural lontre)
* otter

#### Descendants

* → Sardinian: lontra

### 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

## Maltese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian lontra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɔn.tra/

### Noun

lontra f (plural lontri)
* otter

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese *lontra, from a Vulgar Latin variant of Latin lutra. First attested in Gil Vicente's Auto das Fadas. Cf. also Old Galician-Portuguese luntria, attested in 1253.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlõ.tɾɐ/
* Rhymes: -õtɾɐ
* Hyphenation: lon‧tra

### Noun

lontra f (plural lontras)
* otter

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1985) “nutria”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 252

## Sardinian
### Etymology

Probably a recent borrowing from Italian lontra, from a variant of Latin lutra. Wagner's Dizionario etimologico sardo (1960's) has no such entry, and the AIS (1920's) records no word for 'otter' in any part of Sardinia. The apparent lack of dialectal variation, as well as the vowel /o/ for Latin /ŭ/, make a direct inheritance most unlikely.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlontra/

### Noun

lontra f (plural lontras)
* otter (Lutra lutra)

### References

* Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) “lontra”, in Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
* ↑ 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