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litre

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English Wikipedia has an article on:

litre

Etymology 1

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

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.tə/
- Audio (UK): (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈli.tɚ/, [ˈli.ɾɚ]
- Homophone: leader
Hyphenation: li‧tre
Rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)

Noun

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

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.

Alternative forms

liter (US)

Derived terms

attolitre
centilitre
decalitre
decilitre
exalitre
femtolitre
gigalitre
hectolitre
kilolitre
litrebike
megalitre
microlitre
millilitre
multilitre
myrialitre
nanolitre
petalitre
picolitre
ronnalitre
teralitre
yoctolitre
yottalitre

Descendants

→ Hindi: लीटर (līṭar)

Translations

unit of fluid measure

Albanian: litër (sq) m
Arabic: لِتْر m (litr)
Egyptian Arabic: لتر m (letr)

Moroccan Arabic: اطرو (eṭṛō)
Armenian: լիտր (hy) (litr)
Asturian: llitru m
Azerbaijani: litr (az)
Belarusian: літр m (litr)
Bengali: লিটার (bn) (liṭar)
Breton: litr
Bulgarian: ли́тър (bg) m (lítǎr)
Burmese: လီတာ (my) (lita)
Catalan: litre (ca) m
Central Dusun: liter
Chinese:
Cantonese: 升 (sing¹), 公升 (gung¹ sing¹)

Dungan: гуншын (gunšɨn)

Mandarin: 升 (zh) (shēng), 公升 (zh) (gōngshēng)
Czech: litr (cs) m
Danish: liter (da) c
Dutch: liter (nl)
Esperanto: litro (eo)
Estonian: liiter
Faroese: litur m, litri m
Finnish: litra (fi)
French: litre (fr) m
Galician: litro (gl) m
Georgian: ლიტრი (liṭri)
German: Liter (de) m
Greek: λίτρο (el) n (lítro)
Hebrew: לִיטר m (líter)
Hindi: लीटर m (līṭar)
Hungarian: liter (hu)
Icelandic: lítri m
Ido: litro (io)
Indonesian: liter (id)
Irish: lítear m
Italian: litro (it) m
Japanese: リットル (ja) (rittoru), ㍑ (ja) (rittoru)
Jarai: lit
Kazakh: литр (litr)
Khmer: លីត្រ (liit)
Korean: 리터 (ko) (riteo)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: لتر (ltir)
Kyrgyz: литр (ky) (litr)
Lao: ລິດ (lo) (lit)
Latvian: litrs m
Lithuanian: litras m
Macedonian: литар m (litar)
Malay: liter (ms)
Maori: rita
Mongolian: литр (mn) (litr)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: liter m

Nynorsk: liter m
Persian: لیتر (fa) (litr)
Polish: litr (pl) m
Portuguese: litro (pt) m
Romanian: litru (ro) m
Russian: литр (ru) m (litr)
Scottish Gaelic: liotair m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ли̏тра f, ли̏тар m

Latin: lȉtra (sh) f, lȉtar (sh) m
Sicilian: litru (scn) m
Sinhalese: ලීටර් (līṭar)
Slovak: liter (sk) m
Slovene: liter (sl) m
Spanish: litro (es) m
Swahili: lita (sw)
Swedish: liter (sv) c
Tagalog: litro
Tajik: литр (litr)
Tatar: liter (tt)
Telugu: లీటరు (līṭaru)
Thai: ลิตร (th) (lít)
Tibetan: ཤིང་ཚེ (shing tshe), གཞལ་ཚད་ཞིག (gzhal tshad zhig), ཧྲེང (hreng), བྲེ (bre)
Turkish: litre (tr)
Turkmen: litr
Ukrainian: літр m (litr)
Urdu: لیٹر m (līṭar)
Uzbek: litr (uz)
Vietnamese: lít (vi)
Welsh: litr
Yiddish: ליטער m (liter)
Yoruba: lítà

Etymology 2

Noun

litre (plural litres)

(obsolete) Alternative form of litter.

Anagrams

liter, relit, tiler, triel

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Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:

litre

Etymology

Borrowed from French litre.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈli.tɾə]

IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈli.tɾe]
Rhymes: -itɾe

Noun

litre m (plural litres)

litre

Further reading

“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.

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French Wikipedia has an article on:

litre

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /litʁ/
Audio: (file)
Audio (Paris): (file)

Noun

litre m (plural litres)

litre

Related terms

litron

Descendants

→ 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:
Bokmål: liter

Nynorsk: liter
→ Ottoman Turkish: لیتره, لتره (litre)
- Turkish: litre
- → Armenian: լիթռա (litʻṙa)
→ 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

“litre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

relit

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈl̠ʲitʲɾʲə/

Noun

litre f

(archaic) Alternative form of litreach: genitive singular of litir
(archaic) Alternative form of litreacha: nominative plural of litir

References

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “litre”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Etymology

Borrowed from French litre.

Noun

litre m (plural litres)

(Jersey) litre

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

litre

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈlitɾe/ [ˈli.t̪ɾe]
Rhymes: -itɾe
Syllabification: li‧tre

Noun

litre m (plural litres)

Lithraea caustica, a Chilean tree or bush.

Further reading

“litre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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