batraci
Catalan
Etymology
From Ancient Greek [Term?].
Pronunciation
Noun
batraci m (plural batracis)
- frog or salamander, batrachian
- 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 3, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:
- Sis, set braços movent-se com tentacles, rere els quals ululaven cares d'un inframón de batracis, ulls com ous, ninetes com agulles, forats per narius, sense celles, sense llavis, la boca gran.
- Six, seven arms moving around like tentacles, behind which wailed faces from an batrachian underworld, eyes like eggs, pupils like needles, pierced by noses, without eyebrows, without lips, the mouths big.
Further reading
- “batraci”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “batracis”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “batraci” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “batraci” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baˈtra.t͡ʃi/, (traditional) /ˈba.tra.t͡ʃi/[1]
- Rhymes: -atʃi, (traditional) -atratʃi
- Hyphenation: ba‧trà‧ci, (traditional) bà‧tra‧ci
Noun
batraci m
- plural of batrace
References
- ^ batrace in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)