"veltro" meaning in Italian

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Noun

IPA: /ˈvɛl.tro/ Forms: veltri [plural], veltra [feminine]
Rhymes: -ɛltro Etymology: From Old French veltre. Etymology templates: {{der|it|fro|veltre}} Old French veltre Head templates: {{it-noun|m|f=+}} veltro m (plural veltri, feminine veltra), {{tlb|it|literary}} (literary)
  1. greyhound (male) Tags: literary, masculine Hypernyms: cane
    Sense id: en-veltro-it-noun-I9kRiw0X Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From Old French veltre.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "veltri",
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    },
    {
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    "vèl‧tro"
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        "vèl‧tro"
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  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "english": "Many are the animals with which she [the Wolf] mates, and many more there will be, until the greyhound comes, who will make her die in pain.",
          "ref": "1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 100–102; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:",
          "text": "Molti son li animali a cui s’ammoglia,\ne più saranno ancora, infin che ’l veltro\nverrà, che la farà morir con doglia.",
          "translation": "Many are the animals with which she [the Wolf] mates, and many more there will be, until the greyhound comes, who will make her die in pain.",
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          "english": "But his greyhounds got scared, and started whining",
          "ref": "1887, Giosuè Carducci, “La leggenda di Teodorico [The Legend of Theodoric]”, in Rime nuove [New Rhymes], collected in Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, Book 6, page 696, lines 45–46:",
          "text": "Ma i suoi veltri ebber timore\nE si misero a guair",
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    },
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      "form": "veltra",
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    }
  ],
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        "Italian terms derived from Old French",
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          "ref": "1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 100–102; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:",
          "text": "Molti son li animali a cui s’ammoglia,\ne più saranno ancora, infin che ’l veltro\nverrà, che la farà morir con doglia.",
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