litre
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From French litre, from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”). Related to Latin libra. Doublet of rottol.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈliː.tə/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈli.tɚ/, [ˈli.ɾɚ]
- Hyphenation: li‧tre
- Rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
Noun edit
litre (plural litres)
- The metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbols: l, L, ℓ
- You should be able to fill four cups with one litre of water.
- (informal) A measure of volume equivalent to a litre.
Usage notes edit
- The litre is not an SI unit but is accepted for use with SI units. The official SI symbols are the capital roman "L" or lower-case roman "l". The upper-case "L" is often used in English-speaking countries to avoid confusion with the number "1". The script symbol ℓ, while not officially sanctioned, was sometimes used in non-technical contexts to prevent the lower-case roman l from being confused with 1, the number one.
- This, rather than liter, is the spelling adopted by both the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and the International Organization for Standardization in their English language texts. However the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, in accordance with the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual, has chosen to use liter.
Descendants edit
- → Hindi: लीटर (līṭar)
Translations edit
unit of fluid measure
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Further reading edit
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
litre m (plural litres)
- litre
Further reading edit
- “litre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “litre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “litre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “litre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
litre m (plural litres)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Arabic: لِتْر (litr)
- Egyptian Arabic: لتر (letr)
- → Armenian: լիտր (litr)
- → Asturian: llitru
- → Belarusian: літр (litr)
- → Breton: litr
- → Bulgarian: ли́тър (lítǎr)
- → Catalan: litre
- → Central Dusun: liter
- → Czech: litr
- → Danish: liter
- → Dutch: liter
- → English: litre, liter
- → Esperanto: litro
- → Faroese: litur
- → Finnish: litra
- → Galician: litro
- → German: Liter
- → Greek: λίτρο (lítro)
- → Hebrew: ליטר (liter)
- → Hindi: लीटर (līṭar)
- → Hungarian: liter
- → Icelandic: lítri
- → Irish: lítear
- → Italian: litro
- → Japanese: リットル (rittoru), ㍑ (rittoru)
- → Khmer: លីត្រ (liit)
- → Korean: 리터 (riteo)
- Kurdish:
- → Central Kurdish: لتر (litr)
- → Latvian: litrs
- → Lithuanian: litras
- → Macedonian: литар (litar)
- → Norwegian:
- → Ottoman Turkish: لیتره, لتره (litre)
- → Persian: لیتر (litr)
- → Polish: litr
- → Portuguese: litro
- → Romanian: litru
- → Russian: литр (litr)
- → Serbo-Croatian: litar
- → Sicilian: litru
- → Slovak: liter
- → Slovene: liter
- → Spanish: litro
- → Swahili: lita
- → Swedish: liter
- → Tatar: liter
- → Telugu: లీటరు (līṭaru)
- → Thai: ลิตร (lít)
- → Ukrainian: літр (litr)
- → Vietnamese: lít
- → Welsh: litr
Further reading edit
- “litre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
litre f
- (archaic) Alternative form of litreach: genitive singular of litir
- (archaic) Alternative form of litreacha: nominative plural of litir
References edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “litre”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Norman edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
litre m (plural litres)