liter

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈli.tɚ/, [ˈli.ɾɚ]

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  • Homophone: leader
• Hyphenation: li‧ter
• Rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)

liter (plural liters)

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

• litre, relit, tiler, triel

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

1. a litre

• centiliter
• milliliter

Borrowed from French litre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.tər/

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• Hyphenation: li‧ter
• Rhymes: -itər

liter m (plural liters, diminutive litertje n)

1. litre

• centiliter
• decaliter
• deciliter
• hectoliter
• milliliter

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

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

liter (plural literek)

1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

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

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

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

liter (first-person possessive literku, second-person possessive litermu, third-person possessive liternya)

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

• “liter” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

liter

1. To vote

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

liter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of litō

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.

• IPA^(key): [li.tə(r)]
• Rhymes: -tər, -ər
• Hyphenation: li‧ter

liter (Jawi spelling ليتر)

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

• “liter” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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

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

1. a litre

• “liter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːtɛr/

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

1. a litre

liter

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

lìter m

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

• “liter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin littera.

• IPA^(key): /ˈl͈ʲitʲer/

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

• literda (“literary, literal”)

• Irish: litir
• Manx: lettyr
• Scottish Gaelic: litir

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “liter”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /ˈlitɛr/

liter m inan (genitive singular litra, nominative plural litre, genitive plural litrov, declension pattern of stroj)

1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

• litrový
• litrík
• litríček
• litrisko

• “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, 2024

• IPA^(key): /lìːtər/

lítər m inan

1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

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liter c

1. (uncountable, not inflected) litre; a measure of volume
2. litre; an amount of 1 litre of something

liter

1. litre.