In the Italian translations of Sapkowski's novels, "witcher" is translated as strigo . 1 However, the Italian dub of the Netflix series (and the video games) use the English word witcher . 2 Why is this? Is it to avoid confusion with the cognate strige (a monster which also appears in the series)? 1. A pseudo-romance word for "male witch", based on strega ("witch") as opposed to the more usual stregone ("warlock, sorcerer") or mago ("mage"). 2....
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