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crocotta

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
cro-cot-ta
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: κροκόττας, -

Inflected Forms

crocottas (plural) corocotta (alternative) crocuta (alternative)

Synonyms

yena

Questions

What does crocotta mean?
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.
Where does crocotta come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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