loutre – French noun declension

French noun forms of loutre

Noun: loutre
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular floutre
Plural floutres

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [1857, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 1, in Madame Bovary […], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, first part:]

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). See: Latin Nouns 'lutra', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἔνυδρις', Catalan Nouns 'llúdria', Spanish Nouns 'lutria', English Nouns 'otter', German Nouns 'Otter'.

Verbs referencing "loutre"

Romanian Nouns lutră, Latvian Nouns ūdrs, Romanian Nouns lutru.

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