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