literatura
See also: literatúra, literatūra, literatūrā, literatură, literaturą, literatūrą, and łiteratura
Catalan
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra (“grammar; philology”), from littera (“letter”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /li.tə.ɾəˈtu.ɾə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /li.te.ɾaˈtu.ɾa/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -uɾa
Noun
literatura f (plural literatures)
- literature
Related terms
- literari
Further reading
- “literatura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “literatura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “literatura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “literatura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlɪtɛratura]
Noun
literatura f
- literature
- Synonyms: písemnictví, slovesnost
- bibliography (section of a written work)
Declension
Declension of literatura
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | literatura | literatury |
| genitive | literatury | literatur |
| dative | literatuře | literaturám |
| accusative | literaturu | literatury |
| vocative | literaturo | literatury |
| locative | literatuře | literaturách |
| instrumental | literaturou | literaturami |
Derived terms
- literární
Related terms
- literát m
Further reading
- literatura in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- literatura in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- literatura in Internetová jazyková příručka
Esperanto
Etymology
From Latin litterātūra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [literaˈtura]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -ura
- Hyphenation: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra
Adjective
literatura (accusative singular literaturan, plural literaturaj, accusative plural literaturajn)
- literary
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.
Noun
literatura f
- literature
Declension
Declension of literatura
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | literatura | literaturje | literatury |
| Genitive | literatury | literaturowu | literaturow |
| Dative | literaturje | literaturoma | literaturam |
| Accusative | literaturu | literaturje | literatury |
| Instrumental | literaturu | literaturoma | literaturami |
| Locative | literaturje | literaturoma | literaturach |
Further reading
- Starosta, Manfred (1999), “literatura”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li.tɛ.raˈtu.ra/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ura
- Syllabification: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra
Noun
literatura f
- literature (body of all written works)
- literature (all the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject)
Declension
Declension of literatura
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | literatura | literatury |
| genitive | literatury | literatur |
| dative | literaturze | literaturom |
| accusative | literaturę | literatury |
| instrumental | literaturą | literaturami |
| locative | literaturze | literaturach |
| vocative | literaturo | literatury |
Derived terms
nouns
- antyliteratura
- literatura faktu
- literatura piękna
Related terms
adjectives
- aliteracki
- literacki
- literalny
- literniczy
adverbs
- literacko
- literalnie
nouns
- litera
- literacina
- literat
- literatka
- literka
- liternictwo
- liternik
- literowiec
- literówka
verbs
- literować
- przeliterować
- przeliterowywać
Further reading
- literatura in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- literatura in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra (“grammar; philology”), from littera (“letter”). Doublet of letradura.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /li.te.ɾaˈtu.ɾɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /li.te.ɾaˈtu.ɾa/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /li.tɨ.ɾɐˈtu.ɾɐ/
Audio (BR) (file) - Rhymes: -uɾɐ
- Hyphenation: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra
Noun
literatura f (plural literaturas)
- literature (a body of written works collectively)
- Synonym: (obsolete) letradura
- (literature, loosely) literature (the body of all written works)
- (literature) literature (the body of written works from a given culture, nation or era)
- (literature) literature (written material considered historically important or artistically superior)
- (sciences) literature (scholarly works on a particular subject)
- Synonym: bibliografia
- (literature) literature (the study of written works for their artistic quality)
- (literature, loosely) literature (bodies of written and oral text)
Alternative forms
- litteratura (obsolete)
Derived terms
- literatura de cordel
- literatura oral
- literatura popular
Related terms
- letra
- letrado
- literal
- literário
- literatice
- literato
Further reading
- “literatura” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “literatura” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “literatura” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “literatura” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
- “literatura” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “literatura” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.
Noun
literatúra f (Cyrillic spelling литерату́ра)
- literature
Declension
Declension of literatura
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | literatura | literature |
| genitive | literature | literatura |
| dative | literaturi | literaturama |
| accusative | literaturu | literature |
| vocative | literaturo | literature |
| locative | literaturi | literaturama |
| instrumental | literaturom | literaturama |
Slovene
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /litɛratúːra/
Noun
literatȗra f
- literature (body of all written works)
Inflection
| Feminine, a-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nom. sing. | literatúra | ||
| gen. sing. | literatúre | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative (imenovȃlnik) | literatúra | literatúri | literatúre |
| genitive (rodȋlnik) | literatúre | literatúr | literatúr |
| dative (dajȃlnik) | literatúri | literatúrama | literatúram |
| accusative (tožȋlnik) | literatúro | literatúri | literatúre |
| locative (mẹ̑stnik) | literatúri | literatúrah | literatúrah |
| instrumental (orọ̑dnik) | literatúro | literatúrama | literatúrami |
Spanish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra (“grammar; philology”), from littera (“letter”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /liteɾaˈtuɾa/ [li.t̪e.ɾaˈt̪u.ɾa]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -uɾa
- Syllabification: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra
Noun
literatura f (plural literaturas)
- literature
Related terms
- letra
- letrado
- literario
Further reading
- “literatura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish literatura, from Latin litterātūra.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra
- IPA(key): /liteɾaˈtuɾa/, [lɪ.te.ɾɐˈtu.ɾɐ]
Noun
literatura
- literature
- Synonym: panitikan
Related terms
- literato
- literaryo
Upper Sorbian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.
Noun
literatura f
- literature
Declension
Declension of literatura
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | literatura | literaturje | literatury |
| Genitive | literatury | literaturow | literaturow |
| Dative | literaturje | literaturomaj | literaturam |
| Accusative | literaturu | literaturje | literatury |
| Instrumental | literaturu | literaturomaj | literaturami |
| Locative | literaturje | literaturomaj | literaturach |
| Vocative | literatura | literaturje | literatury |
References
- “literatura” in Soblex