Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /lítra/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /lítra/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /lítɾa/

Noun

λίτρα • ‎(lítra) f ‎(genitive λίτρας); first declension

1. litra, a Sicilian silver coin
   • Epicharumus 5
   • Sophron 26
   • Diphilus, The Sicilian 1
   • Posidippus Comicus, The Gaul 2
   • Aristotle, Fragments 436
2. libra, a unit of weight
   • Palatine Anthology 6.214
   • Polybius, Histories 22.26.19
   • Palatine Anthology 10.97
   1. a box for holding libras

Inflection

Synonyms

• (box): λιτροδόκη ‎(litrodókē)

Descendants

• Classical Syriac: ܠܝܛܪܐ
• Old Armenian: լիտր ‎(litr)
• French: litre (see there for further descendants)

References

• 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
• LSJ 8th edition

Greek

Etymology 1

Noun

λίτρα • ‎(lítra) n

1. Nominative, accusative and vocative plural form of λίτρο ‎(lítro).

Etymology 2

Noun

λίτρα • ‎(lítra) f ‎(plural λίτρες)

1. Obsolete form of λίτρο ‎(lítro).

Declension