liter
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈliː.tə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈli.tɚ/, [ˈli.ɾɚ]
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: li‧ter
- Rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
Noun edit
liter (plural liters)
- (American spelling) Alternative form of litre, one cubic decimeter.
Translations edit
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Noun edit
liter c (definite singular literen, indefinite plural liter, definite plural literne)
- a litre
Derived terms edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
liter m (plural liters, diminutive litertje n)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Hungarian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
liter (plural literek)
- litre (unit of fluid measure)
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | liter | literek |
accusative | litert | litereket |
dative | liternek | litereknek |
instrumental | literrel | literekkel |
causal-final | literért | literekért |
translative | literré | literekké |
terminative | literig | literekig |
essive-formal | literként | literekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | literben | literekben |
superessive | literen | litereken |
adessive | liternél | litereknél |
illative | literbe | literekbe |
sublative | literre | literekre |
allative | literhez | literekhez |
elative | literből | literekből |
delative | literről | literekről |
ablative | litertől | literektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
literé | litereké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
literéi | literekéi |
Possessive forms of liter | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | literem | litereim |
2nd person sing. | litered | litereid |
3rd person sing. | litere | literei |
1st person plural | literünk | litereink |
2nd person plural | literetek | litereitek |
3rd person plural | literük | litereik |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- liter in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch liter, from French litre, from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
liter (first-person possessive literku, second-person possessive litermu, third-person possessive liternya)
- litre: the metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbols: l, L, ℓ.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “liter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Ladin edit
Verb edit
liter
- To vote
Conjugation edit
- Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
infinitive | liter, lité | |||||
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auxiliary verb | avei | gerund | litan | |||
past participle | lité | |||||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | ie | tu | el / ela | nos | vos | ei / eles |
present | lite, liteie | lites, liteies | lita, liteia, litea | liton | liteis | lita, liteia |
imperfect | litove | litoves | litova | litovan | litovais | litova |
future | litaré | litaras | litarà | litaron | litareis | litarà |
subjunctive | che ie | che tu | che el / ela | che nos | che vos | che ei / eles |
present | lite, liteie | lites, liteies | lite, liteie | liton | liteis | lite |
imperfect | litasse | litasses | litassa | litassan | litassais | litassa |
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – |
— | lita, liteia | — | liton | litede | — |
Latin edit
Verb edit
liter
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From French litre, Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”).
Noun edit
liter m (definite singular literen, indefinite plural liter, definite plural literne)
- a litre
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “liter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
From French litre, Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
liter m (definite singular literen, indefinite plural liter, definite plural literane or litrane)
- a litre
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
liter
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
lìter m
- (non-standard since 1917) indefinite plural of lìt
References edit
- “liter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
liter f
- letter of the alphabet
- (in the plural) act of writing, (Christianity) written law
- letter, epistle, dispatch
- (in the plural) books, histories
Inflection edit
Feminine ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | literL | litirL | litr(a)eH, litri |
Vocative | literL | litirL | litr(a)eH, litri |
Accusative | litirN | litirL | litr(a)eH, litri |
Genitive | litr(a)eH | literL | literN |
Dative | litirL | litrib | litrib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms edit
- literda (“literary, literal”)
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
liter also lliter after a proclitic |
liter pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “liter”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Slovak edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
liter m inan (genitive singular litra, nominative plural litre, genitive plural litrov, declension pattern of stroj)
- litre (unit of fluid measure)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “liter”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Slovene edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lítər m inan
- litre (unit of fluid measure)
Inflection edit
Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | líter | ||
gen. sing. | lítra | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
líter | lítra | lítri |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
lítra | lítrov | lítrov |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
lítru | lítroma | lítrom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
líter | lítra | lítre |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
lítru | lítrih | lítrih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
lítrom | lítroma | lítri |
Swedish edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
audio (file)
Noun edit
liter c
- (uncountable, not inflected) litre; a measure of volume
- litre; an amount of 1 litre of something
Declension edit
Declension of liter 2 | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | liter | litern | litrar | litrarna |
Genitive | liters | literns | litrars | litrarnas |
Tatar edit
Noun edit
liter
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | liter | liter |
genitive | liter | liter |
dative | liter | liter |
accusative | liter | liter |
locative | liter | liter |
ablative | liter | liter |