# litre
## English
### Etymology 1

From French litre, from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”). Related to Latin lībra. Doublet of arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, lira, litra, livre, and rottol.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈliː.tə/
** Audio (UK):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈli.tɚ/, [ˈli.ɾɚ]
** Homophones: liter, leader, lieder
* (Indic) IPA: /ˈlɪ.ʈə(ɾ)/
** Homophone: litter
* Hyphenation: li‧tre
* Rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)

#### Noun

litre (plural litres)
* The metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbol: L, l, or ℓ.
    Holonyms: kilolitre < megalitre < gigalitre
    Meronyms: picolitre < nanolitre < microlitre < millilitre
    You should be able to fill four cups with one litre of water.
* (informal) A measure of volume equivalent to a litre.

##### Usage notes

* 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 symbol ℓ, 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 than liter, is the spelling adopted by both the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and the International 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 use liter.

##### Alternative forms

* liter (US)

##### Derived terms

* attolitre
* centilitre
* decalitre
* decilitre
* exalitre
* femtolitre
* gigalitre
* hectolitre
* kilolitre
* litrebike
* megalitre
* microlitre
* millilitre
* multilitre
* myrialitre
* nanolitre
* petalitre
* picolitre
* ronnalitre
* teralitre
* yoctolitre
* yottalitre

##### Descendants

* → Hindi: लीटर (līṭar)

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish litre

#### Noun

litre (plural litres)
* Lithraea caustica, a Chilean tree or bush.

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

litre (plural litres)
* (obsolete) Alternative form of litter.

### Anagrams

* liter, relit, tiler, triel

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from French litre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈli.tɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈli.tɾe]
* Rhymes: -itɾe

### Noun

litre m (plural litres)
* litre

### Further reading

* “litre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “litre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “litre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “litre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /litʁ/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio (Paris):(file)

### Noun

litre m (plural litres)
* litre

#### Related terms

* litron

#### Descendants

* → Arabic: لِتْر (litr)
    Egyptian Arabic: لتر (letr)
* → Armenian: լիտր (litr)
* → Asturian: llitru
* → Belarusian: літр (litr)
* → Breton: litr
* → Bulgarian: ли́тър (lítǎr)
* → Catalan: litre
* → Central Dusun: liter
* → Czech: litr
* → Danish: liter
* → Dutch: liter
* → English: litre, liter
* → Esperanto: litro
* → Faroese: litur
* → Finnish: litra
* → Galician: litro
* → German: Liter
* → Greek: λίτρο (lítro)
* → Hebrew: ליטר (liter)
* → Hindi: लीटर (līṭar)
* → Hungarian: liter
* → Icelandic: lítri
* → Irish: lítear
* → Italian: litro
* → Japanese: リットル (rittoru), ㍑ (rittoru)
* → Khmer: លីត្រ (liit)
* → Korean: 리터 (riteo)
* Kurdish:
    → Central Kurdish: لتر (litr)
* → Latvian: litrs
* → Lithuanian: litras
* → Macedonian: литар (litar)
* → Norwegian:
    Bokmål: liter
    Nynorsk: liter
* → Ottoman Turkish: لیتره, لتره (litre)
** Turkish: litre
** → Armenian: լիթռա (litʻṙa)
* → Persian: لیتر (litr)
* → Polish: litr
* → Portuguese: litro
* → Romanian: litru
* → Russian: литр (litr)
* → Serbo-Croatian: litar
* → Sicilian: litru
* → Slovak: liter
* → Slovene: liter
* → Spanish: litro
* → Swahili: lita
* → Swedish: liter
* → Tatar: liter
* → Telugu: లీటరు (līṭaru)
* → Thai: ลิตร (lít)
* → Ukrainian: літр (litr)
* → Vietnamese: lít
* → Welsh: litr

### Further reading

* “litre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* relit

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈl̠ʲitʲɾʲə/

### Noun

litre f
* (archaic) Alternative form of litreach: genitive singular of litir
* (archaic) Alternative form of litreacha: nominative plural of litir

### References

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “litre”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Norman
### Etymology

Borrowed from French litre.

### Noun

litre m (plural litres)
* (Jersey) litre

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlitɾe/ [ˈli.t̪ɾe]
* Rhymes: -itɾe
* Syllabification: li‧tre

### Noun

litre m (plural litres)
* Lithraea caustica, a Chilean tree or bush.

### Further reading

* “litre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10