Etymology

crocotta

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Ancient Greek κροκόττας
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  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromκροκόττας“crocotta”
  2. English todaycrocotta

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

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