Etymology

nutria

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Spanish nutria ← Latin lutra
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromlutra
  2. Spanish · borrowed fromnutria“otter”
  3. English todaynutria

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

Words from the same roots

Latinlutra all →

lutrine

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