litre
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈliː.tə/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈli.tɚ/, [ˈli.ɾɚ]
- Rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: li‧tre
NounEdit
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 notesEdit
- 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.
DescendantsEdit
- → Hindi: लीटर (līṭar)
TranslationsEdit
unit of fluid measure
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Further readingEdit
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
litre m (plural litres)
Further readingEdit
- “litre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “litre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “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.
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
litre m (plural litres)
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → 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 readingEdit
- “litre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
AnagramsEdit
IrishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
litre f
- (archaic) Alternative form of litreach: genitive singular of litir
- (archaic) Alternative form of litreacha: nominative plural of litir
ReferencesEdit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “litre”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
litre m (plural litres)