Noun: litera
Gender: f
Hyphenation: li‧te‧ra
| Singular f | litera |
| Plural f | literas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like litera
enlatadora,
gencianilla,
paletada,
interneurona,
palestra,
quinacridona,
uridina,
bacinilla,
sopaipilla,
histerectomía,
desaveniencia,
baicaleína,
mesanina,
delicatessen,
hipertrigliceridemia,
teleasistencia,
sequía,
serifa,
seroja,
sesera, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der.
3. Latin lectus
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
5. Proto-Italic *-āzios
6. Latin -āriusnom.
7. Latin -ārius
8. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
10. Proto-Italic *-ā
11. Latin -a
12. Latin -āria
13. Late Latin lectuāria
14. Old Catalan litera
15. Catalan lliterabor.
16. Spanish litera
17. Borrowed from Catalan llitera, from Late Latin lectuāria, from Latin lectus (“bed”). First attested in 1600. A native Castilian outcome, for comparison, may have been *lechera. See: Catalan Nouns '
llitera', Latin Nouns '
lectus'.
Verbs referencing "litera"
Galician Nouns
liteira.
Translations