nutria

From Spanish nutria (“otter”), from Latin lutra.

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nutria (countable and uncountable, plural nutrias)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) The coypu, Myocastor coypus.
   • 1986, Identifying and Managing Aquatic Rodents in Texas, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, page 13,

     Nutria are native to South America and were successfully established in North America in the early 1930s as a new furbearing species.

   • 2000, National Wetlands Newsletter, Volumes 22-23, Environmental Law Institute, page 8:

     Furthermore, nutria engage in the outright destruction of muskrat lodges to create nesting habitat for themselves.

2. The fur of the coypu.

• nutria rat

• → Danish: nutria
• → Japanese: ヌートリア (nūtoria)
• → Korean: 뉴트리아 (nyuteuria)

• taurin

From English nutria.

nutria

1. coypu, nutria
   • 1964, Aage Aagesen, Sydamerika:

     På pampaen findes bl. a. bæltedyr, opossum, nandu, stinkdyr og hjorte. Ved vandløbene er nutriaen hyppig.

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2. the fur thereof
   • 1957, Aage Dons, De åbne arme, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     Under Nutriaen bar hun en smaablomstret Silke imprimé Kjole,^[sic] ...

     Under the nutria, she wore a ? with small flowers on it, ...

From Spanish nutria.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnutriɑ/, [ˈnut̪riɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -utriɑ
• Syllabification^(key): nut‧ri‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): nut‧ria

nutria

1. coypu,

• “nutria”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• anturi, riutan, rutina, tunari, turina, uritan

• IPA^(key): /ˈnu.tri.a/
• Rhymes: -utria
• Hyphenation: nù‧tri‧a

nutria f (plural nutrie)

1. coypu, nutria

   Synonym: castorino

• anturi

Borrowed from Spanish nutria. Doublet of hydra and wydra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnu.trja/

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• Rhymes: -utrja
• Syllabification: nu‧tria

nutria f (related adjective nutriowy)

1. nutria (any mammal of the genus Myocastor)
2. coypu, nutria (Myocastor coypus)

   Synonym: nutria amerykańska

3. coypu fur

• nutria in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• nutria in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• nutria in PWN's encyclopedia

nutria

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of nutrir

• lutria (archaic)

From Vulgar Latin *nutria or *lutria / *lutrea, from Latin lutra. The Spanish word, preserving the -t-, may have arrived through the intermediate of either Mozarabic or more likely a Southern Italian language or dialect: cf. Salerno dialect (of Neapolitan) nùtria, Calabrian ùtria and lùtria, utre in Basilicata, etc. The Vulgar Latin form was likely influenced by Ancient Greek ἔνυδρις (énudris).^[1] Compare also Catalan llúdria, Portuguese lontra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnutɾja/ [ˈnu.t̪ɾja]

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• Rhymes: -utɾja
• Syllabification: nu‧tria

nutria f (plural nutrias)

1. otter
2. (Rioplatense) nutria, coypu

   Synonym: coipo

• → Belarusian: нутрыя (nutryja)
• → Czech: nutrie
• → English: nutria
  • → Danish: nutria
  • → Japanese: ヌートリア (nūtoria)
  • → Korean: 뉴트리아 (nyuteuria)
• → Finnish: nutria
• → German: Nutria
• → Italian: nutria
• → Lithuanian: nutrija
• → Macedonian: нутрија (nutrija)
• → Polish: nutria
• → Portuguese: nútria
• → Russian: нутрия (nutrija)
• → Slovak: nutria
• → Ukrainian: нутрія (nutrija)

• “nutria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024