liter

See also: Liter

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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

Noun

liter (plural liters)

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

Etymology 2

Noun

liter (plural liters)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of litter.

Anagrams

• litre, relit, tiler, triel

Danish

Noun

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

1. a litre

Derived terms

• centiliter
• milliliter

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French litre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.tər/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: li‧ter
• Rhymes: -itər

Noun

liter m (plural liters, diminutive litertje n)

1. litre

Derived terms

• centiliter
• decaliter
• deciliter
• hectoliter
• milliliter

Descendants

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

liter (plural literek)

1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

Declension

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

Compound words

• deciliter
• milliliter

 

Further reading

• 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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

• literan

 

Further reading

• “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.

Ladin

Verb

liter

1. To vote

Conjugation

• 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

Verb

liter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of litō

Malay

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

liter (Jawi spelling ليتر)

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

Affixations

• literan

 

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. a litre

Derived terms

• centiliter
• desiliter
• halvliter
• hektoliter
• litermål
• milliliter

 

References

• “liter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːtɛr/

Noun

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

1. a litre

Derived terms

• centiliter
• desiliter
• halvliter
• hektoliter
• litermål
• milliliter

 

Etymology 2

Verb

liter

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

Etymology 3

Noun

lìter m

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

References

• “liter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin littera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl͈ʲitʲer/

Noun

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

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

• literda (“literary, literal”)

Descendants

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

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
liter also lliter after a proclitic ending in a vowel	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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “liter”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlitɛr/

Noun

liter m inan

1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

Declension

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

• litrový
• litrík
• litríček
• litrisko

Further reading

• “liter”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lìːtər/

Noun

lítər m inan

1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

Inflection

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

Alternative forms

Dialects

• litar (Piteå)

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

liter c

1. liter (unit of volume)

   Jag drack två liter mjölk

   I drank two liters of milk

Usage notes

Usually uninflected in the indefinite plural.

Declension

Declension of liter

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	liter	liters
	definite	litern	literns
plural	indefinite	liter	liters
	definite	literna	liternas

Declension of liter

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	liter	liters
	definite	litern	literns
plural	indefinite	litrar	litrars
	definite	litrarna	litrarnas

References

• liter in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• liter in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• liter in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Tatar

Noun

liter

1. litre.

Declension

    declension of liter

Nominative	liter
Genitive	liternıñ
Dative	literga
Accusative	liternı
Locative	literda
Ablative	literdan