λίτρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
A Mediterranean substrate word surviving also in Latin libra. Compare the morphology of Ancient Greek στατήρ (statḗr).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lǐː.traː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈli.tra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈli.tra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈli.tra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.tra/
Noun
λῑ́τρᾱ • (lī́trā) f (genitive λῑ́τρᾱς); first declension
- litra, a Sicilian silver coin
- Epicharumus 5
- Sophron 26
- Diphilus, The Sicilian 1
- Posidippus Comicus, The Gaul 2
- Aristotle, Fragments 436
- libra, a unit of weight
- Palatine Anthology 6.214
- Polybius, Histories 22.26.19
- Palatine Anthology 10.97
- a box for holding libras
- Synonym: λιτροδόκη (litrodókē)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ λῑ́τρᾱ; τῆς λῑ́τρᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ λῑ́τρᾱ hē lī́trā | τὼ λῑ́τρᾱ tṑ lī́trā | αἱ λῖτραι hai lîtrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς λῑ́τρᾱς tês lī́trās | τοῖν λῑ́τραιν toîn lī́train | τῶν λῑτρῶν tôn lītrôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ λῑ́τρᾳ têi lī́trāi | τοῖν λῑ́τραιν toîn lī́train | ταῖς λῑ́τραις taîs lī́trais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν λῑ́τρᾱν tḕn lī́trān | τὼ λῑ́τρᾱ tṑ lī́trā | τᾱ̀ς λῑ́τρᾱς tā̀s lī́trās | ||||||||||
Vocative | λῑ́τρᾱ lī́trā | λῑ́τρᾱ lī́trā | λῖτραι lîtrai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܪܺܝܛܠܳܐ/ ܠܺܝܛܪܳܐ (līṭrā, rīṭlā)
- Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: רִיטְלָא/ לִיטְרָא (līṭrā, rīṭlā)
- → Arabic: رِطْل (riṭl)
- → English: rottol, rotol, rotolo, rottolo, rotal; rotl, rottil, rottle; rutl; rethel, rethl; rattle, ratl
- → Italian: rotolo
- → Portuguese: arrátel
- → Spanish: arrelde
- → Swahili: ratili
- → Turkish: ratl / رطل
- → Urdu: رطل
- → Old Armenian: լիտր (litr)
- → Medieval Latin: litra
- → French: litre(see there for further descendants)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ли̏тра
- Latin: lȉtra
References
- “λίτρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λίτρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λίτρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3046 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- λίτρα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /liˈtɾa/
- Hyphenation: λί‧τρα
- Homophone: λύτρα (lýtra)
Noun
λίτρα • (lítra) n
- Nominative, accusative and vocative plural form of λίτρο (lítro).
Noun
λίτρα • (lítra) f (plural λίτρες)
- Obsolete form of λίτρο (lítro).
Declension
declension of λίτρα
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | λίτρα • | λίτρες • |
genitive | λίτρας • | λιτρών • |
accusative | λίτρα • | λίτρες • |
vocative | λίτρα • | λίτρες • |