littera – Latin noun declension

Latin noun forms of littera

Noun: littera
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine Declension: First

Nominative

Singularlittera
Plurallitterae

Genitive

Singularlitterae
Plurallitterārum

Dative

Singularlitterae
Plurallitterīs

Accusative

Singularlitteram
Plurallitterās

Ablative

Singularlitterā
Plurallitterīs

Vocative

Singularlittera
Plurallitterae

Sample Sentences

  • Tam Alexidis manum amabam, quod tam prope accedebat ad similitudinem tuae litterae; non amabam, quod indicabat te non valere. (While I was liking the handwriting of Alexis for it resembled so closely a likeness to your own handwriting, I wasn't liking it for it was indicating that you were not well.) [68 BCE – 44 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 7.2]
  • Litteras resignare. (To unseal (or open) a letter.)
  • Abest historia litteris nostris. (The story is missing from our literature.)
  • Sī versūs hōrum duōrum poetārum neglegētis, magnā parte litterārum carēbitis. (If you neglect the verses of these two poets, you will miss a great part of literature.)
  • Praetoris litterae. (A praetor's edict.)
  • Litteras revocavit. (A letter of appointment. (a commission))

Nouns inflected like littera

scōria, meschīta, sewera, zōnula, ecclēsia, concurrentia, satira, satura, satyra, sagīna, sagēna, sarīsa, salīva, salīna, sampsa, samara, sacēna, salvia, sabīna, sculna, 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. Unknown. Two possibilities include:
10. * From earlier lītera, the existence of which is disputed, with lengthening of the consonant (sometimes called the littera rule), from Old Latin leitera (attested ca. 122 BC, argued by Ernout & Meillet to be a false etymological attraction to lino), from a plural form of earlier adj. *lei-tos (cf. opera from opus), related to Latin linō (“smear”) and Proto-Italic *linō (“smear”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“smear”). A variation of this is to reconstruct the PIE root as *leyt- (“to scratch”).
11. : However, De Vaan points out that the past participle from lino is actually litus with a short i and, lacking any other traces of *leitos, says the scenario is "morphologically unconvincing".
12. * Alternatively, perhaps via Etruscan [Term?] from (or related to, as if from a common source) Ancient Greek διφθέρᾱ (diphthérā, “leather; writing material”) which is claimed by Hesychius to be used to name tablets as well, of unknown ultimate origin. See: Latin Nouns 'linō'.

Verbs referencing "littera"

English Nouns letter, Dutch Nouns letter, French Nouns lettre, Middle English Nouns lettre, Irish Nouns litir, English Nouns literal, Galician Nouns letra, Portuguese Nouns letra, Spanish Nouns letra, Finnish Nouns littera, Latvian Nouns litera, Romanian Nouns literă, Asturian Nouns lletra, Catalan Nouns lletra, English Nouns literation, Ukrainian Nouns літера, Russian Nouns литера, Belarusan Nouns літара.

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