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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)

  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

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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)

  1. (always meter) A device that measures things.
  2. (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
    gas meter (also falls under sense 1)
  3. (always meter) (dated) One who metes or measures.
  4. (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.
  5. (chiefly American spelling, elsewhere metre) (music) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure.
  6. (chiefly American spelling, elsewhere metre, prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem.
  7. (chiefly American spelling, elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
  8. (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)

  1. To measure with a metering device.
  2. To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.
  3. 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

  1. to put

Danish

Noun

meter c (singular definite meteren, plural indefinite meter)

  1. 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)

  1. measurer (person who measures something)
  2. 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)

  1. 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)

  1. 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)

  1. (transitive) to put
  2. (transitive) to insert
  3. (transitive) to bring in
  4. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to meddle, interfere
  5. (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)

  1. meter, a device that measures things.
  2. 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)

  1. 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 ?

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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)

  1. 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)

  1. 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)

  1. 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)

  1. (transitive) to put
  2. (transitive) to insert
  3. (reflexive) to meddle, interfere
  4. (transitive, vulgar) to fuck, screw
  5. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of meter
  6. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of meter
  7. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of meter
  8. 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

  1. meter, metre (unit of length)

Further reading

  • meter in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Noun

meter m

  1. 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)

  1. to put in, insert
  2. (sports) to score
  3. to make (noise)
  4. to cram, to stuff, to stick, to shove
  5. (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

  1. a metre; the SI-unit
  2. (music) Rhythm or measure in verse
  3. a meter; a device that measures things.

Usage notes

Indefinite form plural could also be metrar/metrars

Declension


Tatar

Noun

meter

  1. meter

Declension

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