litr

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪtr̩]
• Rhymes: -ɪtr̩

litr m inan

1. liter (US), litre (UK)

   půl litru ― half a liter

2. (informal) a thousand crowns (Czech currency)

   Synonyms: tisíc, tác, talíř

• “litr”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “litr”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “litr”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Proto-Germanic *wlitiz, *wlituz (“appearance, look, aspect”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to see”). Cognate with Old Frisian wlite, Old Saxon wliti, Old English wlite, Gothic 𐍅𐌻𐌹𐍄𐍃 (wlits).

litr m (genitive litar, plural litir)

1. color

• Old Norse: litmosi
  • → Middle English: lytmos
    • English: litmus

• Icelandic: litur
• Faroese: litur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: let, lit
• Norwegian Bokmål: let
• Old Swedish: liter
  • Swedish: let, lit
• Old Danish: lyt
  • Danish: lød
    • Norwegian Bokmål: lød
• → Old English: lit
  • Middle English: lit, litte
    • Scots: lit, litt
    • English: lit

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “litr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

• IPA^(key): /ˈlitr/

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• Rhymes: -itr
• Syllabification: litr

litr m inan

1. litre

• litr in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• litr in Polish dictionaries at PWN