different between liter vs linter

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 1

Noun

linter (countable and uncountable, plural linters)

1. The short fibres that cling to cottonseeds after the first ginning.
2. (countable) A machine for removing these fibres.

   Synonym: delinter

3. A person or device that collects lint for use in making hats &c

See also

• lint doctor
• lint roller

Etymology 2

lint +? -er

Noun

linter (plural linters)

1. (computing) A program or algorithm that performs linting.

Latin

Etymology

From older form lunter, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to wash”); more at pluit (“it rains”). Cf. also Ancient Greek ??????? (plunt?r).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?lin.ter/, [?l?n?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?lin.ter/, [?lin?t??r]

Noun

linter f or m (genitive lintris); third declension

1. tub, trough
2. small light boat, skiff, canoe

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• The genitive plural is sometimes found as lintrum.

Descendants

• Albanian: ljundrë
• Aromanian: luntri, lãndurã
• Dalmatian: lundro
• Romanian: luntre

References

• linter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• linter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• linter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• linter in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers