different between liter vs piccolo

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 Italian piccolo (“small”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?k?l??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?kolo?/, /?p?k?lo?/, /?p?kl?o?/

Noun

piccolo (plural piccolos or piccoli)

1. A waiter's assistant in a hotel or restaurant.
2. A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, ¹?₄ the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or snipe.
3. (music) A musical instrument similar to a flute, but smaller and playing an octave higher.

Derived terms

• piccoloist

Translations

Danish

Etymology

From Italian piccolo (“small, little, young”).

Noun

piccolo c (singular definite piccoloen, plural indefinite piccoloer)

1. bellboy, bellhop
2. office boy

Inflection

Antonyms

• (female) piccoline

Related terms

• piccolofløjte

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian piccolo (“small”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pi.ko?.lo?/
• Hyphenation: pic?co?lo

Noun

piccolo m (plural piccolo's, diminutive piccolootje n)

1. (music) piccolo (small flute)
2. piccolo, hotel porter
3. piccolo (small bottle of champagne)

Finnish

Etymology

From Italian piccolo.

Noun

piccolo

1. Alternative spelling of pikkolo.

Declension

French

Etymology

From Italian piccolo.

Noun

piccolo m (plural piccolos)

1. (music) piccolo.

Hungarian

Etymology

From Italian piccolo.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -lo?

Noun

piccolo

1. (music) piccolo.

Declension

Italian

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from:

• An onomatopoetic root or children's/nursery word *pikk-, *picc-.
• From Vulgar Latin *pikk (“little”), related to *piccare (“to pierce”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bu- (“to make a dull, hollow sound”).
• From picca (“point”).
• From Vulgar Latin pittitus (“small, worthless”), which is linked to French petit and English piece.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pik.ko.lo/
• Hyphenation: pìc?co?lo

Adjective

piccolo m (feminine singular piccola, masculine plural piccoli, feminine plural piccole, comparative più piccolo or minore)

1. small
2. little
3. young

Synonyms

• piccino

Antonyms

• grande
• grosso

Related terms

• piccolezza
• piccolo trumpet

See also

• micro-
• nano-

Further reading

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “piccolo”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

References

Polish

Alternative forms

• pikolo

Etymology

From Italian piccolo.

Noun

piccolo n

1. (music) piccolo

Declension

Further reading

• piccolo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

From Italian piccolo.

Noun

piccolo m (plural piccolos)

1. piccolo