livro

livro m (plural livros, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of libro

• “livro” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.vro/
• Rhymes: -ivro
• Hyphenation: lì‧vro

livro m (plural livri)

1. obsolete form of libro (“book”)
   • 1350s, anonymous author, “Prologo e primo capitolo [Preface and first chapter]”, in Cronica [Chronicle]‎^[1] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:

     Dice lo glorioso dottore missore santo Isidoro, nello livro delle Etimologie, che lo primo omo de Grecia che trovassi lettera fu uno Grieco lo quale abbe nome Cadmo.

     The glorious scholar sir saint Isidore, in the book of Etymologies, says that the first man of Greece to discover letters was a Greek whose name was Cadmus.

• “livro”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 9 libe–med, UTET, 1975, page 172a

• libro (Haketía), liƀro (Yugoslavia)

Inherited from Old Spanish libro, from Latin liber, librum.

• Audio (Spain):

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livro m (Hebrew spelling ליב׳רו, plural livros)

1. book (a collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc) [16th c.]

   Hyponym: livriko

   • 1979 July, “Meam Lopez: Ensiklopedia Relijioza del Djudaizmo Sefaradi”, in Aki Yerushalayim‎^[2], archived from the original on 3 December 2020, page 20:

     Malgrado su simplisidad, el Meam Loez es un livro bazado sovre una rika i serioze dokumentasion, ke inkluye a todas las prinsipales ovras de baza del djudaizmo.

     Despite its simplicity, the Meam Loez is a book based on a rich and serious documentation, which includes all the basic working principles of Judaism.

Borrowed from Latin librum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.βro/

livro m (plural livros)

1. book
   • 1396, A. Cabana Outeiro, editor, O Tombo H da catedral de Santiago. Documentos anteriores a 1397, Valga: Concello de Valga, page 138:

     hũu liuro apocalisy scripto en purgameo e cuberto de cuberturas de táuõas cubertas de coyro uermello con pregos grandes, o qual liuro era scripto em bõa létera formada e con pinturas

     a book of Revelation written on parchment and covered with covers made of boards covered with red leather, with large sheets, and the mentioned book is written with good well formed letter and with paintings

• Fala: libru
• Galician: libro
• Portuguese: livro

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “livro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “livro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “liuro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): [ˈli.vɾʷ]

• Audio (Brazil):

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• Rhymes: -ivɾu
• Hyphenation: li‧vro

From Old Galician-Portuguese livro, an early borrowing from Latin librum. Cognate with Galician, Spanish, and Italian libro, Catalan llibre, Occitan libre and French livre.

livro m (plural livros)

1. book

   Livros são janelas abertas para o mundo. ― Books are open windows to the world.

2. (zoology) omasum (third part of the stomach of ruminants, which internally has numerous folds)

   Synonym: folhoso

• Kabuverdianu: libru
• → Tetum: livru

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

livro

1. first-person singular present indicative of livrar

• “livro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “livro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025