liter

• lit. (abbreviation)

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

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  • Homophones: leader, litre, lieder
• Hyphenation: li‧ter
• Rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)

liter (plural liters)

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

liter (plural liters)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of litter.

• litre, relit, tiler, triel

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

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

1. a litre

• centiliter
• milliliter

Borrowed from French litre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.tər/

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• Hyphenation: li‧ter
• Rhymes: -itər

liter m (plural liters, diminutive litertje n)

1. litre

• centiliter
• decaliter
• deciliter
• hectoliter
• milliliter

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

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

liter (plural literek)

1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

• liter in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

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

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

liter (plural liter-liter)

1. litre: the metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbols: l, L, ℓ

• “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.

liter

1. To vote

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

liter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of litō

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.

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

liter (Jawi spelling ليتر)

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

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

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

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

1. a litre

• “liter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːtɛr/

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

1. a litre

liter

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

lìter m

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

• “liter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin littera.

• IPA^(key): /ˈl͈ʲitʲer/

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

• litredacht (“literature”)

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

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈliter]

liter m inan (relational adjective litrový, diminutive litrík or litríček, augmentative litrisko)

1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

• “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

• IPA^(key): /lìːtər/

lítər m inan

1. litre (unit of fluid measure)

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

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liter c

1. liter (unit of volume)

   Jag drack två liter mjölk

   I drank two liters of milk

Usually uninflected in the indefinite plural.

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

liter

1. litre.