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liter

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English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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liter (plural liters)

  2. (American spelling) Alternative form of litre, one cubic decimeter.

Etymology 2

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liter (plural liters)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of litter.

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Danish

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Etymology

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From French litre, from Ancient Greek λῑ́τρᾱ (lī́trā).

Noun

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liter c (definite singular literen, indefinite plural liter, definite plural literne)

  1. a litre

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Declension of liter
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative liter literen liter literne
genitive liters literens liters liternes

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French litre.

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liter m (plural liters, diminutive litertje n)

  1. litre

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Descendants

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  • → Aukan: liti
  • → Caribbean Javanese: liter
  • → Indonesian: liter

Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈlitɛr]
  • Hyphenation: li‧ter
  • Rhymes: -ɛr

Noun

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liter (plural literek)

  1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
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
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

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Compound words

Further reading

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  • liter in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch liter, from French litre, from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈlitər]
  • Hyphenation: li‧têr

Noun

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liter (plural liter-liter)

  1. litre: the metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbols: l, L, ℓ

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Ladin

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Verb

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liter

  1. To vote

Conjugation

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  • Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of liter (first conjugation)
infinitive liter, lité
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

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Verb

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liter

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of litō

Malay

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Etymology

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From English litre, liter, from French litre, from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”). Related to Latin libra.

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liter (Jawi spelling ليتر)

  1. The metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre; litre, liter.

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From French litre, Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”).

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liter m (definite singular literen, indefinite plural liter, definite plural literne)

  1. a litre

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From French litre, Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”).

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Noun

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liter m (definite singular literen, indefinite plural liter, definite plural literane or litrane)

  1. a litre
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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liter

  1. (non-standard since 2012) present tense of lite

Etymology 3

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Noun

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lìter m

  1. (non-standard since 1917) indefinite plural of lìt

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin littera.

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Noun

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liter f

  1. letter of the alphabet
  2. (in the plural) act of writing, (Christianity) written law
  3. letter, epistle, dispatch
  4. (in the plural) books, histories

Inflection

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Feminine ā-stem
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:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

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Descendants

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Mutation

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Mutation of liter
radical lenition nasalization
liter
also lliter after a proclitic
ending in a vowel 		liter
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Slovak

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Noun

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liter m inan (relational adjective litrový, diminutive litrík or litríček, augmentative litrisko)

  1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

Declension

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Declension of liter
(pattern stroj)
singularplural
nominativeliterlitre
genitivelitralitrov
dativelitrulitrom
accusativeliterlitre
locativelitrilitroch
instrumentallitromlitrami

Further reading

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  • “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, 2003–2025

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Pronunciation

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lítər m inan

  1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

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 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., hard o-stem
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

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liter c

  1. liter (unit of volume)
    Jag drack två liter mjölk
    I drank two liters of milk

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Usually uninflected in the indefinite plural.

Declension

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Declension of liter
nominative genitive
singular indefinite liter liters
definite litern literns
plural indefinite liter liters
definite literna liternas
Declension of liter
nominative genitive
singular indefinite liter liters
definite litern literns
plural indefinite litrar litrars
definite litrarna litrarnas

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Tatar

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Noun

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liter

  1. litre.

Declension

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    declension of liter
Nominative liter
Genitive liternıñ
Dative literga
Accusative liternı
Locative literda
Ablative literdan
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