veltro

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Old French veltre.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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veltro m (plural veltri, feminine veltra) (literary)

  1. greyhound (male)
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎[1], lines 100–102; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Molti son li animali a cui s’ammoglia,
      e più saranno ancora, infin che ’l veltro
      verrà, che la farà morir con doglia.
      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.
    • 1887, Giosuè Carducci, “La leggenda di Teodorico [The Legend of Theodoric]”, in Rime nuove [New Rhymes]‎[3], collected in Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, Book 6, page 696, lines 45–46:
      Ma i suoi veltri ebber timore
      E si misero a guair
      But his greyhounds got scared, and started whining

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