different between liter vs libra

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?li.t?/, [?li.??]
  • Homophone: leader
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?li?.t?/
• Rhymes: -i?t?(?)
• Hyphenation: li?ter

Noun

liter (plural liters)

1. (American spelling) Alternative form of litre, one cubic decimeter.

Translations

Anagrams

• litre, relit, tiler, triel

Danish

Noun

liter c (definite singular literen, indefinite plural liter, definite plural literne)

1. a litre, or liter (US) (SI unit for measurement of volume)

Derived terms

• centiliter
• milliliter

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French litre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li.t?r/
• Hyphenation: li?ter
• Rhymes: -it?r

Noun

liter m (plural liters, diminutive litertje n)

1. litre

Derived terms

• centiliter
• decaliter
• deciliter
• hectoliter
• milliliter

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: liter

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lit?r]
• Hyphenation: li?ter
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

liter (plural literek)

1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

Declension

Derived terms

• deciliter
• milliliter

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch liter, from French litre, from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek ????? (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lit?r]
• Hyphenation: li?têr

Noun

liter (first-person possessive literku, second-person possessive litermu, third-person possessive liternya)

1. liter, litre: the metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbols: l, L, ?.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “liter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Ladin

Verb

liter

1. To vote

Conjugation

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Latin

Verb

liter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of lit?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French litre, Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek ????? (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”).

Noun

liter m (definite singular literen, indefinite plural liter, definite plural literne)

1. a litre (UK) or liter (US)

Derived terms

References

• “liter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From French litre, Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek ????? (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li?t?r/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

liter m (definite singular literen, indefinite plural liter, definite plural literane or litrane)

1. a litre (UK) or liter (US)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

liter

1. (non-standard since 2012) present tense of lite

Etymology 3

Noun

lìter m

1. (non-standard since 1917) indefinite plural of lìt

References

• “liter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin littera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l??it?er/

Noun

liter f

1. letter of the alphabet
2. (in plural) act of writing, (Christianity) written law
3. letter, epistle, dispatch
4. (in plural) books, histories

Inflection

Derived terms

• literda (“literary, literal”)

Descendants

• Irish: litir
• Manx: lettyr
• Scottish Gaelic: litir

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “liter”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lit?r/

Noun

liter m (genitive singular litra, nominative plural litre, genitive plural litrov, declension pattern of stroj)

1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

Declension

Derived terms

• litrový
• litrík
• litrí?ek
• litrisko

Further reading

• liter in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lì?t?r/

Noun

lít?r m inan

1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

Inflection

Swedish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

liter c

1. (uncountable, not inflected) litre; a measure of volume
2. litre; an amount of 1 litre of something

Declension

Tatar

Noun

liter

1. litre.

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin l?bra. Doublet of lira and livre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?laibr?/

Noun

libra (plural librae or libras)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) A Roman unit of weight equal to about 327 grams.
2. 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.
3. 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

1. pound (unit of measure)
2. 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)

1. 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

1. a Roman unit of measure, equal to twelve ounces; a pound (abbreviated lb.)
2. a pair of scales, balance
3. a level (a device for making horizontal)
4. (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?

1. 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)

1. pound (unit of mass)
2. 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)

1. pound (unit of mass or force/weight)
2. pound (unit of currency of the United Kingdom and its dependencies)

   Synonym: libra esterlina

Noun

libra m or f (plural libras)

1. Libra (someone with the Libra star sign)

Related terms

• Libra

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

libra

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of librar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of librar.
3. 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

1. pound (unit of mass or force/weight)