Noun: litre
| Singular | litre |
| Plural | litres |
Sample Sentences
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Holonyms: kilolitre < megalitre < gigalitre
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Meronyms: picolitre < nanolitre < microlitre < millilitre
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You should be able to fill four cups with one litre of water.
Nouns inflected like litre
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
From French litre, from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”). Related to Latin lībra. Doublet of arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, lira, litra, livre, and rottol. See: French Nouns '
litre', Ancient Greek Nouns '
λίτρα', Latin Nouns '
lībra'.
Verbs referencing "litre"
Latin Nouns
libra, Zulu Nouns
ilitha.