loutre

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).

• IPA^(key): /lutʁ/

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loutre f (plural loutres)

1. otter
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 1, in Madame Bovary […] ‎^[1], first part:

     C’était une de ces coiffures d’ordre composite, où l’on retrouve les éléments du bonnet à poil, du chapska, du chapeau rond, de la casquette de loutre et du bonnet de coton, une de ces pauvres choses, enfin, dont la laideur muette a des profondeurs d’expression comme le visage d’un imbécile.

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• → Romanian: lutră
• → Turkish: lutr

• “loutre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ourlet, rotule