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liter
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)
- (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- a litre (UK) or liter (US)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
liter
- (non-standard since 2012) present tense of lite
Etymology 3
Noun
lìter m
- (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
- letter of the alphabet
- (in plural) act of writing, (Christianity) written law
- letter, epistle, dispatch
- (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)
- 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
- litre (unit of fluid measure)
Inflection
Swedish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
liter c
- (uncountable, not inflected) litre; a measure of volume
- litre; an amount of 1 litre of something
Declension
Tatar
Noun
liter
- litre.
Declension
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meter
English
Alternative forms
- metre (Commonwealth English for noun senses 4 to 7, rare for other senses)
Etymology
Borrowed from French mètre, from Ancient Greek ?????? (métron, “measure”). Doublet of metron.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?mit??/, [?mi??]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?mi?t?/
- Rhymes: -i?t?(r)
Noun
meter (plural meters)
- (always meter) A device that measures things.
- (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
- gas meter (also falls under sense 1)
- (always meter) (dated) One who metes or measures.
- (chiefly American spelling, elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived of as 1/10000000 of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, and now defined as the distance light will travel in a vacuum in 1/299792458 second.
- (chiefly American spelling, elsewhere metre) (music) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
- (chiefly American spelling, elsewhere metre, prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem.
- (chiefly American spelling, elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
- (obsolete) A poem.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Robynson (More's Utopia) to this entry?)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
meter (third-person singular simple present meters, present participle metering, simple past and past participle metered)
- To measure with a metering device.
- To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.
- To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath).
Translations
Anagrams
- -metre, -treme, Emert, metre, remet, retem
Aragonese
Etymology
From Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mitt?.
Verb
meter
- to put
Danish
Noun
meter c (singular definite meteren, plural indefinite meter)
- a metre, or meter (US) (SI unit of measurement)
Declension
Derived terms
References
- “meter” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?me?t?r/
- Hyphenation: me?ter
- Rhymes: -e?t?r
Etymology 1
From meten +? -er.
Noun
meter m (plural meters, diminutive metertje n)
- measurer (person who measures something)
- meter (device that measures things or indicates a physical quantity)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French mètre.
Noun
meter m (plural meters, diminutive metertje n)
- meter, metre (unit of distance)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: meter
- ? Indonesian: meter
Etymology 3
From Middle Dutch meter, from metrijn, from Latin matr?na.
Noun
meter f (plural meters, diminutive metertje n, masculine peter)
- godmother
- Synonyms: peettante, petemoei
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese meter, from Latin mitt?, mitt?re (“to send, put”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *meyth?-, *mith?- (“to exchange, remove”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me?te?/
Verb
meter (first-person singular present meto, first-person singular preterite metín, past participle metido)
- (transitive) to put
- (transitive) to insert
- (transitive) to bring in
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to meddle, interfere
- (transitive) to deliver
Conjugation
References
- “meter” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “meter” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “meter” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “meter” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?m?.t?r]
- Hyphenation: mè?têr
Etymology 1
- From Dutch meter, meten, from Middle Dutch m?ten, from Old Dutch metan, from Proto-Germanic *metan?, from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”).
- From Dutch meter, from French mètre, from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek ?????? (métron, “measure”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh?- (“to measure”).
Doublet of metrum.
Noun
mètêr (first-person possessive meterku, second-person possessive metermu, third-person possessive meternya)
- meter, a device that measures things.
- meter, metre, the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI).
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Dutch meter, from Middle Dutch meter, from metrijn, from Latin matr?na.
Noun
mètêr (first-person possessive meterku, second-person possessive metermu, third-person possessive meternya)
- godmother.
Further reading
- “meter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Kholosi
Etymology
From Sanskrit ????? (m?trá).
Noun
meter ?
- urine
References
- Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) , “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx?[1], pages 13-36
Ladin
Etymology
From Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mitt?.
Verb
meter
- to put, place
Conjugation
- Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?me?.ter/, [?me?t??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?me.ter/, [?m??t??r]
Verb
m?ter
- first-person singular present active subjunctive of m?tor
Mòcheno
Etymology
From French mètre, from Latin metrum (“a measure”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (métron).
Noun
meter m (plural meter)
- meter (unit of measure)
References
- “meter” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
meter m (definite singular meteren, indefinite plural meter, definite plural meterne)
- a metre, or meter (US) (SI unit of length)
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
meter m (definite singular meteren, indefinite plural meter, definite plural meterane or metrane)
- a metre, or meter (US) (SI unit of length)
Derived terms
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- metter (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old Portuguese meter, from Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mitt? (“I send, I put”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *meyth?-, *mith?- (“to exchange, remove”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /me.te(?)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /m??te?/
- Hyphenation: me?ter
Verb
meter (first-person singular present indicative meto, past participle metido)
- (transitive) to put
- (transitive) to insert
- (reflexive) to meddle, interfere
- (transitive, vulgar) to fuck, screw
- first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of meter
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of meter
- first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of meter
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of meter
Conjugation
Related terms
- cometer
- prometer
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:meter.
Further reading
- “meter” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “meter” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “meter” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.
- “meter” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “meter” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?meter]
Noun
meter m
- meter, metre (unit of length)
Further reading
- meter in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
Slovene
Noun
meter m
- meter, metre (unit of length)
Further reading
- “meter”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish meter, from Latin mitt? (“to send, to put”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *mey-th?- (“to exchange, remove”). Cognate with English mess.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me?te?/, [me?t?e?]
Verb
meter (first-person singular present meto, first-person singular preterite metí, past participle metido)
- to put in, insert
- (sports) to score
- to make (noise)
- to cram, to stuff, to stick, to shove
- (reflexive) to meddle, interfere, to get into
- Synonyms: inmiscuirse, meter la nariz
Conjugation
Derived terms
Related terms
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?me?t?r/
Noun
meter c
- a metre; the SI-unit
- (music) Rhythm or measure in verse
- a meter; a device that measures things.
Usage notes
Indefinite form plural could also be metrar/metrars
Declension
Tatar
Noun
meter
- meter
Declension
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