lliura
See also: lliurà
Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin lībra (“Roman pound”). Cognate with Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish libra.
Noun
lliura f (plural lliures)
- English or American pound, a unit of mass equivalent to 453.6 g
- (historical) libra, Spanish pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 460 g
- (chiefly historical) pound, any of various other similar units of mass in other measurement systems
- British pound, a unit of British currency, originally notionally equivalent to a pound of sterling silver
- (chiefly historical) pound, any of various other similar currencies notionally equivalent to a pound of gold or silver
Coordinate terms
- (Spanish unit of mass): unça (1/16 lliura)
Etymology 2
Verb
lliura
- inflection of lliurar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “lliura”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “lliura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “lliura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “lliura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.