FromFrench litre Medieval Latin litra Ancient Greek λίτρα ( lítra ,“ a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight ” ) . Related toLatin lībra Doublet ofarratel libbra Libra libra lira litra livre , and rottol
enPR :lē′tər , Rhymes:-iːtə(ɹ)
enPR :lĭ′tər , Rhymes:-ɪtə(ɹ)
litre (plural litres
Themetric unit offluid measure , equal to onecubic decimetre . Symbol:L l ℓ Holonyms: kilolitre megalitre gigalitre Meronyms: picolitre nanolitre microlitre millilitre You should be able to fill four cups with onelitre of water.
( informal ) 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 symbolℓ , 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 thanliter , is the spelling adopted by both theInternational Bureau of Weights and Measures and theInternational 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 useliter . Borrowed fromSpanish litre
litre (plural litres
Lithraea caustica litre (plural litres
( obsolete ) Alternative form oflitter .Borrowed fromFrench litre
litre m plural litres
litre “litre ”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana Dictionary of the Catalan Language Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans ], April 2007 “litre ”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana ,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana ,2025 “litre” inDiccionari normatiu valencià ,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua .“litre” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear , Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.Borrowed fromMedieval Latin litra Ancient Greek λίτρα ( lítra ,“ a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight ” ) .
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( archaic ) alternative form oflitreach :genitive singular oflitir ( archaic ) alternative form oflitreacha :nominative plural oflitir Borrowed fromFrench litre
litre m plural litres
( Jersey ) litre IPA (key ) : /ˈlitɾe/ [ˈli.t̪ɾe] Rhymes:-itɾe Syllabification:li‧tre litre m plural litres
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