livre
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French livre. Doublet of libra and lira.
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Noun edit
livre (plural livres)
- (historical) A unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 115:
- They like to see them awarded comfortable pensions. Is it 700,000 livres a year to the Polignac family?
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 30:
- He never, it should be noted, totally renounced his inheritance: a critic of the court round, he benefited to the tune of a cool two million livres a year from royal largesse […] .
- (historical) An ancient French unit of weight, equal to about 1 avoirdupois pound.
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
livre m (plural livres)
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Middle French livre, from Old French livre, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin librum. The strictly inherited form would be *loivre. Doublet of liber.
Noun edit
livre m (plural livres)
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Descendants edit
- Louisiana Creole: liv
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Middle French livre, from Old French livre, from Latin lībra.
Noun edit
livre f (plural livres)
- pound (unit of weight)
- (Europe, informal) metrical pound, half a kilogramme, 500 g
- (North America) imperial pound ≈ 454 g
- (historical) various values between 300 and 600 g
- pound (unit of currency)
- (Louisiana) grade (level)
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- Louisiana Creole: liv
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Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
livre
- inflection of livrer:
Further reading edit
- “livre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English edit
Noun edit
livre
- Alternative form of lyvere (“liver”)
Middle French edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old French livre, from Latin liber.
Noun edit
livre m (plural livres)
Descendants edit
- French: livre
Etymology 2 edit
From Old French livre, from Latin lībra.
Noun edit
livre f (plural livres)
Descendants edit
- French: livre
Etymology 3 edit
From Old French livre, from Latin līber.
Adjective edit
livre m or f (plural livres)
References edit
- livre on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Norman edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old French livre, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin liber, librum.
Noun edit
livre m (plural livres)
Derived terms edit
- garder les livres (“to keep books, book-keep”)
- livre d'exèrcice (“exercise book”)
- livre d'priéthes (“prayer book”)
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- librairie (“bookshop”)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
livre f (plural livres)
- pound (unit of measure of mass)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
livre n (definite singular livreet, indefinite plural livre or livreer, definite plural livrea or livreene)
- Alternative form of livré
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
livre n (definite singular livreet, indefinite plural livre, definite plural livrea)
- Alternative form of livré
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Etymology 1 edit
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin liber, librum.
Noun edit
livre oblique singular, m (oblique plural livres, nominative singular livres, nominative plural livre)
- book (collection of sheets of paper in a specific order)
- 1260–1267, Brunetto Latini, “Cist premiers livres parole de la naissance de toutes choses [This first book talks about the birth of all things]” (chapter 1), Livre I - Premiere partie [First book - First part], in Livres dou Tresor [Book of the treasure]; republished as Polycarpe Chabaille, compiler, Li livres dou tresor par Brunetto Latini[1], Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1863, page 1:
- si come li sires qui vuet en petit leu amasser choses de grandisme vaillance […] por acroistre son pooir […] i met il les plus chieres choses et les plus precieux joiaus que il puet, selonc sa bone entencion, tout autressi est li cors de cest livre compilez de sapience
- Just like the lord, who wishes to accumulate very valuable things in a tiny place […] in order to increase his power, […] puts there—according to his good intention—the dearest things and the most precious jewels he can, so the body of this book is filled with knowledge
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
livre oblique singular, f (oblique plural livres, nominative singular livre, nominative plural livres)
Usage notes edit
- According to the Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française, the actual measure varied between 380g and 552g.
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Etymology 3 edit
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin līber.
Adjective edit
livre m (oblique and nominative feminine singular livre)
Descendants edit
- Middle French: livre
References edit
- livre on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (livre, supplement)
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Center-West, Brazil) (file) - Hyphenation: li‧vre
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese livre, libre, from Latin līber, from Old Latin loeber, from Proto-Italic *louðeros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ-er-os, from *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”).
Adjective edit
livre m or f (plural livres)
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Descendants edit
Noun edit
livre m (plural livres)
- (soccer) free kick
- Synonym: pontapé livre
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
livre
- inflection of livrar: