# liter
## English
### Alternative forms

* lit. (abbreviation)

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈliː.tə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈli.tɚ/, [ˈli.ɾɚ]
* Audio (US):(file)
** Homophones: leader, litre, lieder
* Hyphenation: li‧ter
* Rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)

#### Noun

liter (plural liters)
* (American spelling) Alternative form of litre, one cubic decimeter.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

liter (plural liters)
* (obsolete) Alternative form of litter.

### Anagrams

* litre, relit, tiler, triel

## Danish
### Etymology

From French litre, from Ancient Greek λῑ́τρᾱ (lī́trā).

### Noun

liter c (definite singular literen, indefinite plural liter, definite plural literne)
* a litre

#### Derived terms

* centiliter
* milliliter

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French litre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈli.tər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: li‧ter
* Rhymes: -itər

### Noun

liter m (plural liters, diminutive litertje n)
* litre

#### Derived terms

* centiliter
* decaliter
* deciliter
* hectoliter
* milliliter

#### Descendants

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

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlitɛr]
* Hyphenation: li‧ter
* Rhymes: -ɛr

### Noun

liter (plural literek)
* litre (unit of fluid measure)

#### Derived terms

* 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: [ˈlitər]
* Hyphenation: li‧têr

### Noun

liter (uncountable)
* 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
* To vote

#### Conjugation

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

## Latin
### Verb

liter
* 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: [li.tə(r)]
* Rhymes: -tər, -ər
* Hyphenation: li‧ter

### Noun

liter (Jawi spelling ليتر)
* 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)
* 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: /ˈliːtɛr/

#### Noun

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

##### Derived terms

* centiliter
* desiliter
* halvliter
* hektoliter
* litermål
* milliliter

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

liter
* (non-standard since 2012) present tense of lite

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

lìter m
* (non-standard since 1917) indefinite plural of lìt

### References

* “liter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Irish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin littera.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈl͈ʲitʲer/

### Noun

liter f
* letter of the alphabet
* (in the plural) act of writing, (Christianity) written law
* letter, epistle, dispatch
* (in the plural) books, histories

#### Inflection

* $^H$ = triggers aspiration
* $^L$ = triggers lenition
* $^N$ = triggers nasalization

#### Derived terms

* literda (“literary, literal”)

#### Descendants

* Irish: litir
* Manx: lettyr
* Scottish Gaelic: litir

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### 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: [ˈliter]

### Noun

liter m inan (relational adjective litrový, diminutive litrík or litríček, augmentative litrisko)
* litre (unit of fluid measure)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “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, 2003–2025

## Slovene
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lìːtər/

### Noun

lítər m inan
* litre (unit of fluid measure)

#### Inflection
## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* litar (Piteå)

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

liter c
* liter (unit of volume)
    Jag drack två liter mjölkI drank two liters of milk

#### Usage notes

Usually uninflected in the indefinite plural.

#### Declension
### References

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

## Tatar
### Noun

liter
* litre.