different between kilo vs litter

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ki?l??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kilo?/
• Hyphenation: ki?lo
• Rhymes: -i?l??

Noun

kilo (plural kilos)

1. Clipping of kilogram.

Translations

See also

• kilo-

Anagrams

• Ilok, Loki

Chamicuro

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish kilo.

Noun

kilo

1. kilo(gram)

Czech

Etymology

Clipping of kilogram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?lo]
• Hyphenation: ki?lo

Noun

kilo n

1. kilo, short for kilogram
2. (informal) a hundred crowns (Czech currency)

Declension

Synonyms

• (hundred crowns): stovka f

Derived terms

• p?tikilo n

See also

• litr m
• tác m
• b?r m
• pade f
• p?tka f
• ka?ka f

Further reading

• kilo in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• kilo in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

kilo c (plural kilo's, diminutive kilootje n)

1. Abbreviation of kilogram.

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kilo/, [?kilo?]
• Rhymes: -ilo
• Syllabification: ki?lo

Etymology 1

Clipping of kilogramma (“kilogram”)

Noun

kilo

1. kilogram, kilo

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Probably from kileä? Cognate with Karelian kilo.

Noun

kilo

1. (rare) shine

Declension

Derived terms

• auringonkilo

Related terms

• kilottaa

Anagrams

• Koli, loki, olki

French

Etymology

From the prefix kilo-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki.lo/

Noun

kilo m (plural kilos)

1. kilo

Further reading

• “kilo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Karao

Noun

kilo

1. kilogram

Latvian

Noun

kilo m (invariable)

1. alternative form of kilograms

Norman

Noun

kilo m (plural kilos)

1. (Jersey) kilo

Northern Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?k?ilo/

Noun

kilo

1. kilo, kilogramme

   Synonym: kilográm?má

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• gilo

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (khílioi), via French kilo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /çi?lu/, [?çi?.l?]

Noun

kilo m (definite singular kiloen, indefinite plural kilo, definite plural kiloene)

kilo n (definite singular kiloet, indefinite plural kilo, definite plural kiloa or kiloene)

1. a kilo (1000 grammes)
2. kilo (letter K in the ICAO spelling alphabet, usually spoken rather than written)

Synonyms

• kilogram

References

• “kilo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (khílioi), via French kilo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /çi?lu/, [?çi?.l?]

Noun

kilo m (definite singular kiloen, indefinite plural kilo, definite plural kiloa)

kilo n (definite singular kiloet, indefinite plural kilo, definite plural kiloa)

1. a kilo (1000 grammes)
2. kilo (letter K in the ICAO spelling alphabet)

Synonyms

• kilogram

References

• “kilo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?i.l?/

Noun

kilo n (indeclinable)

1. (colloquial) kilogram
2. (colloquial, rare) Any other unit whose name starts with kilo-, like the kilometre.

Romani

Noun

kilo m (plural kile)

1. stake

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

kilo (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. vocative singular of kila

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ki??/

Noun

kilo m (genitive singular kila, nominative plural kilá, genitive plural kíl, declension pattern of mesto)

1. kilo, short for kilogram

Declension

Derived terms

• kilový
• kile?ko

Further reading

• kilo in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Noun

kilo

1. accusative/instrumental singular of kila

Spanish

Etymology

Clipping of kilogramo.

Noun

kilo m (plural kilos)

1. kilo (kilogram)

   Synonyms: kilogramo, quilo, quilogramo

2. the letter K in the Spanish spelling alphabet
3. (dated, Spain) a million pesetas
4. (Spain) a million euros

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kilo.

Pronunciation

Noun

kilo (n class, plural kilo) or kilo (ki-vi class, plural vilo)

1. kilogram

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?l?/, (now chiefly regional) /?ki?l?/

Noun

kilo n

1. kilo, short form of kilogram (unit of mass equal to 1000 grams)

Declension

See also

• kilo-

Anagrams

• olik

Tagalog

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kiluq (cf. Ilocano nakillo (“winding; twisted; broken (of language)”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ki?lô
• IPA^(key): /ki?lo?/, [kx??lo?]

Adjective

kilô

1. bent; crooked

   Synonym: buktot

2. curved

Alternative forms

• quilo (obsolete, Abecedario orthography)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Spanish kilo.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ki?lo
• IPA^(key): /?kilo/, [?kx?lo]

Noun

kilo

1. kilo, short form of kilogram (unit of mass equal to 1000 grams)

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ????? (kiló).

Noun

kilo

1. kilogram, kilo

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

English

Etymology

From French litière, from lit (“bed”), from Latin lectus; confer Ancient Greek ??????? (léktron). Had the sense ‘bed’ in very early English, but then came to mean ‘portable couch’, ‘bedding’, ‘strewn rushes (for animals)’, etc.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?t?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?t?/, [?l???]
• Rhymes: -?t?(r)
• Homophone: lidder (US)

Noun

litter (countable and uncountable, plural litters)

1. (countable) A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.
2. (collective, countable) The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
3. (uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.

4. (uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
   • 1730, Jonathan Swift, s:The Lady's Dressing Room

     Strephon [...] / Stole in, and took a strict survey / Of all the litter as it lay.
5. (uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray

6. (uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.
7. A covering of straw for plants.

Synonyms

• (platform designed to carry a person or a load): palanquin, sedan chair, stretcher, cacolet
• (items discarded on the ground): waste, rubbish, garbage (US), trash (US), junk

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

litter (third-person singular simple present litters, present participle littering, simple past and past participle littered)

1. (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).

2. (transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
3. (transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
4. (transitive) To give birth to, used of animals.
5. (intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
6. (transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
   • 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offered to the great Deservings of John Williams

     Tell them how they litter their jades.

   • For his ease, well litter'd was the floor.

7. (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
   • 1634, William Habington, Castara

     The inn where he and his horse litter'd.

Derived terms

• litterer

Translations

Anagrams

• retilt, tilter, titler

Norman

Etymology

From Old French luitier, loitier, luiter (compare French lutter), from Vulgar Latin luct?re, from Latin luctor, luct?r? (“struggle, wrestle, fight”).

Verb

litter

1. (Jersey) to wrestle

Derived terms

• litteux (“wrestler”)