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libra
English
Etymology
From Latin l?bra. Doublet of lira and livre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?laibr?/
Noun
libra (plural librae or libras)
- (historical, Ancient Rome) A Roman unit of weight equal to about 327 grams.
- Any of various units of weight in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries approximately equal to 460 grams or a little more than a US or UK pound.
- Alternative spelling of libbra, an Italian unit of weight.
Further reading
- Ancient Roman measures of weight § Weight on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Dictionary of Units of Measurement
Anagrams
- Arbil, Baril, Blair, Bliar, Rabil, brail
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
libra f
- pound (unit of measure)
- pound (currency)
Further reading
- libra in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- libra in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Italian
Noun
libra f (plural libre)
- pound
Latin
Etymology 1
A Mediterranean substrate word, original form something like Proto-Italic *l?thra, *leithra (“pound”), surviving also in Ancient Greek ????? (lítra), whenceEnglish litre.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?li?.bra/, [?li?b?ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?li.bra/, [?li?b??]
Noun
l?bra f (genitive l?brae); first declension
- a Roman unit of measure, equal to twelve ounces; a pound (abbreviated lb.)
- a pair of scales, balance
- a level (a device for making horizontal)
- (Medieval Latin, New Latin) Any of various units of weight and of currency, particularly the pound, livre, and libra.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Related terms
- l?br?
- l?br?ti?
Descendants
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?li?.bra?/, [?li?b?ä?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?li.bra/, [?li?b??]
Verb
l?br?
- second-person singular present active imperative of l?br?
References
- libra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- libra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- libra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- libra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- libra in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- libra in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- libra in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /?li.???/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?li.b??/
Noun
libra f (plural libras)
- pound (unit of mass)
- pound (unit of sterling or other currency)
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lib?a/, [?li.???a]
Etymology 1
From Latin libra. Doublet of lira.
Noun
libra f (plural libras)
- pound (unit of mass or force/weight)
- pound (unit of currency of the United Kingdom and its dependencies)
- Synonym: libra esterlina
Noun
libra m or f (plural libras)
- Libra (someone with the Libra star sign)
Related terms
- Libra
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
libra
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of librar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of librar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of librar.
Further reading
- “libra” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Tagalog
Etymology
From Spanish libra, from Latin libra.
Noun
libra
- pound (unit of mass or force/weight)
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scale
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ske?l/, [ske???]
- Hyphenation: scale
- Rhymes: -e?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English scale, from Latin sc?la, usually in plural sc?lae (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder”), for *scadla, from scand? (“I climb”); see scan, ascend, descend, etc. Doublet of scala.
Noun
scale (plural scales)
- (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
- An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.
- Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.
- The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.
- Size; scope.
- There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
- This map uses a scale of 1:10.
- A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
- (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
- A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
- the decimal scale; the binary scale
- Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
- A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.
- Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.
Hyponyms
- (earthquake): Mercalli scale, Palermo scale, Richter scale
- (economy): wage scale
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (suk?ru)
Translations
See also
- degree
- ordinal variable
References
- scale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
scale (third-person singular simple present scales, present participle scaling, simple past and past participle scaled)
- (transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
- We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
- (transitive) To climb to the top of.
- Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
- At last I came to the great barrier-cliffs; and after three days of mad effort--of maniacal effort--I scaled them. I built crude ladders; I wedged sticks in narrow fissures; I chopped toe-holds and finger-holds with my long knife; but at last I scaled them. Near the summit I came upon a huge cavern.
- 1932, Dorothy L Sayers, Have his Carcase, Chapter 1.
- A solitary rock is always attractive. All right-minded people feel an overwhelming desire to scale and sit upon it.
- (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.
- (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
Hyponyms
- scale back
- scale down
- scale up
Related terms
- scaling ladder
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English scale, from Old French escale, from Frankish and/or Old High German skala, from Proto-Germanic *skal?. Cognate with Old English s?ealu (“shell, husk”), whence the modern doublet shale. Further cognate with Dutch schaal, German Schale, French écale. Also related to English shell, French écaille, Italian scaglia.
Noun
scale (plural scales)
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
- A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
- A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
- The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
- Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
- Limescale.
- A scale insect.
- The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
Derived terms
- antiscalant
- criticola scale
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (suk?ru)
Translations
Verb
scale (third-person singular simple present scales, present participle scaling, simple past and past participle scaled)
- (transitive) To remove the scales of.
- Please scale that fish for dinner.
- Synonym: descale
- (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
- The dry weather is making my skin scale.
- (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
- to scale the inside of a boiler
- (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
- if all the mountains and hills were scaled, and the earth made even
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
- (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
- Some sandstone scales by exposure.
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
- (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)
Translations
Etymology 3
From Old Norse skál (“bowl”). Compare Danish skål (“bowl, cup”), Dutch schaal; German Schale; Old High German sc?la; Gothic ???????????????????????? (skalja, “tile, brick”), Old English scealu (“cup; shell”). Cognate with scale, as in Etymology 2.
Noun
scale (plural scales)
- A device to measure mass or weight.
- After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.
- Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
Usage notes
- The noun is often used in the plural to denote a single device (originally a pair of scales had two pans).
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (suk?ru)
Translations
Further reading
- scale up on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- scale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- scale in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- -clase, Salce, acles, alecs, claes, laces, selca
Italian
Noun
scale f pl
- plural of scala
Anagrams
- calse, salce
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French escale.
Alternative forms
- skale, scalle
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ska?l(?)/
Noun
scale (plural scales)
- flake
Descendants
- English: scale
- Yola: skaulès (plural)
References
- “sc?le, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
From Latin sc?la.
Alternative forms
- skale, schale
Noun
scale (plural scales)
- ladder
Descendants
- English: scale
References
- “sc?le, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
From Old Norse [Term?].
Alternative forms
- shale, schale
Noun
scale (plural scales)
- hut, hovel
References
- “sc?le, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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