λίτρα

Ancient Greek

A Mediterranean substrate word surviving also in Latin libra.

λῑ́τρᾱ • (lī́trā) f (genitive λῑ́τρᾱς); first declension

First declension of ἡ λῑ́τρᾱ; τῆς λῑ́τρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

→ Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܪܺܝܛܠܳܐ / ܠܺܝܛܪܳܐ‎ (līṭrā, rīṭlā)
- Jewish Aramaic: רִיטְלָא / לִיטְרָא‎ (līṭrā, rīṭlā)
- → Arabic: رِطْل‎ (riṭl)
  - → English: rottol
  - → Italian: rotolo
  - → 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

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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
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

λίτρα • (lítra) n

λίτρα • (lítra) f (plural λίτρες)

declension of λίτρα

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