liter

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English[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

liter (plural liters)

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

Translations[edit]

cubic decimeter — see litre

Anagrams[edit]

Danish[edit]

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Noun[edit]

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

  1. a litre

Derived terms[edit]

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French litre.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

liter m (plural liters, diminutive litertje n)

  1. litre

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

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

Hungarian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

liter (plural literek)

  1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

Declension[edit]

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative liter literek
accusative litert litereket
dative liternek litereknek
instrumental literrel literekkel
causal-final literért literekért
translative literré literekké
terminative literig literekig
essive-formal literként literekként
essive-modal — —
inessive literben literekben
superessive literen litereken
adessive liternél litereknél
illative literbe literekbe
sublative literre literekre
allative literhez literekhez
elative literből literekből
delative literről literekről
ablative litertől literektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		literé litereké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		literéi literekéi
Possessive forms of liter
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. literem litereim
2nd person sing. litered litereid
3rd person sing. litere literei
1st person plural literünk litereink
2nd person plural literetek litereitek
3rd person plural literük litereik

Derived terms[edit]

Compound words

Further reading[edit]

  • 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

Indonesian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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.

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Ladin[edit]

Verb[edit]

liter

  1. To vote

Conjugation[edit]

  • Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of liter (first conjugation)
infinitive liter, lité
auxiliary verb avei gerund litan
past participle lité
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative ie tu el / ela nos vos ei / eles
present lite, liteie lites, liteies lita, liteia, litea liton liteis lita, liteia
imperfect litove litoves litova litovan litovais litova
future litaré litaras litarà litaron litareis litarà
subjunctive che ie che tu che el / ela che nos che vos che ei / eles
present lite, liteie lites, liteies lite, liteie liton liteis lite
imperfect litasse litasses litassa litassan litassais litassa
imperative – tu – nos vos –
— lita, liteia — liton litede —

Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

liter

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of litō

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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

  1. a litre

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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

  1. a litre
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

liter

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

Etymology 3[edit]

Noun[edit]

lìter m

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

References[edit]

Old Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin littera.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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

Inflection[edit]

Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative literL litirL litr(a)eH, litri
Vocative literL litirL litr(a)eH, litri
Accusative litirN litirL litr(a)eH, litri
Genitive litr(a)eH literL literN
Dative litirL litrib litrib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
liter
also lliter after a proclitic 		liter
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading[edit]

Slovak[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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

  1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

Declension[edit]

Declension of liter
singular plural
nominative liter litre
genitive litra litrov
dative litru litrom
accusative liter litre
locative litri litroch
instrumental litrom litrami

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • “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

Slovene[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

lítər m inan

  1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

Inflection[edit]

 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing. líter
gen. sing. lítra
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		líter lítra lítri
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		lítra lítrov lítrov
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		lítru lítroma lítrom
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		líter lítra lítre
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		lítru lítrih lítrih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		lítrom lítroma lítri

Swedish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Dialects

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

liter c

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

Declension[edit]

Declension of liter 2
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative liter litern litrar litrarna
Genitive liters literns litrars litrarnas

Tatar[edit]

Noun[edit]

liter

  1. litre.

Declension[edit]

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declension of liter
singular plural
nominative liter liter
genitive liter liter
dative liter liter
accusative liter liter
locative liter liter
ablative liter liter
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