Noun: literal
| Singular | literal |
| Plural | literals |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like literal
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH-der.
3. Old Latin leitera
4. Latin līterader.?
5. Proto-Hellenic *dipʰtʰérā?
6. Ancient Greek διφθέρᾱ (diphthérā)bor.
7. Etruscan [Term?]bor.?
8. Latin littera
9. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
10. Proto-Indo-European *-is
11. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
12. Proto-Italic *-ālis
13. Latin -ālis
14. Late Latin litterālisbor.
15. Old French literalbor.
16. Middle English literal
17. English literal
18. From Middle English literal, from Old French literal, from Late Latin litteralis or literalis (“of or pertaining to letters or to writing”), from Latin littera or litera (“a letter”). See letter. See: Middle English Nouns '
literal', Latin Nouns '
littera'.
Verbs referencing "literal"
Finnish Nouns
literaali.