crocotta

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κροκόττας (krokóttas, “”, first attested in Strabo's Geographica), which may have been borrowed from Sanskrit.

Noun

crocotta (plural crocottas)

  1. A mythical dog-wolf of India or Ethiopia, said to be a deadly enemy of men and dogs and able to imitate the voice of any animal or human.

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