otre

See also: otrę

Franco-Provençal

Adjective

otre (Lyonnais)

1. Alternative form of ôtro (“other”)

References

• otre in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Italian

un otre — a wineskin

Etymology

From Latin uter, from earlier *udris, from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.tre/
• Rhymes: -otre
• Hyphenation: ó‧tre

Noun

otre m (plural otri)

1. leather bottle; waterskin or wineskin
   • 1825, “Libro III [Book 3]”, in Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, page 70, lines 323–327:

     Venían recando i banditori intanto
     Dalle città le sacre ostie di pace,
     Due trascelti agnelletti, e della terra
     Giocondo frutto generoso vino
     Chiuso in otre caprigno. […]

     Meanwhile the announcers were coming, bringing the sacred peace offerings from the cities: two carefully picked lambs, and generous wine, pleasant harvest of the soil, sealed in a goat wineskin

Derived terms

• otricello

Anagrams

• -tore, Orte, erto, rote

Middle English

Noun

otre

1. Alternative form of oter

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• otere, otrer

Noun

otre m

1. indefinite plural of oter

Tarantino

Etymology

Inherited from Latin alter. False cognate of English other.

Adjective

otre

1. other