litera

Borrowed from Spanish litera, from Catalan llitera.

• IPA^(key): /liteɾa/ [li.t̪e.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -eɾa, -a
• Hyphenation: li‧te‧ra

litera inan (Southern)

1. bunk bed (piece of furniture made up of two beds stacked on top of each other)
2. bunk (each of the two beds that make up a bunk bed)

• “litera”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “litera”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Borrowed from Latin littera.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪtɛra]
• Hyphenation: li‧te‧ra

litera f

1. (higher register) letter (letter of the alphabet)

   Synonym: písmeno

• “litera”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “litera”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈliː.tɛ.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈliː.te.ra]

lītera f (genitive līterae); first declension

1. alternative form of littera
   • 1833, Joannis Schulek, Grammatica latina, Szakolczae, page 5:

     Latini habent literas viginti quinque: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, ſ, (s), t, u, v, x, y, z.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

First-declension noun.

• “litera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “litera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "litera", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “litera”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• litera, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Borrowed from Latin littera.

litera f (4th declension)

1. synonym of burtstabiņš

From English letter.

litera

1. letter (of the alphabet)

Learned borrowing from Latin littera.

• IPA^(key): /liˈtɛ.ra/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: li‧te‧ra

litera f (diminutive literka)

1. letter (letter of the alphabet)

• “litera”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “litera”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

From literă +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /liteˈra/

a litera (third-person singular present literează, past participle literat) 1st conjugation

1. to letter

• IPA^(key): /ˈlitera/

litera

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of literă

Borrowed from Catalan llitera, from Late Latin lectuāria, from Latin lectus (“bed”). First attested in 1600.^[1] A native Castilian outcome, for comparison, may have been *lechera.

• IPA^(key): /liˈteɾa/ [liˈt̪e.ɾa]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: li‧te‧ra

litera f (plural literas)

1. bunk bed (piece of furniture made up of two beds stacked on top of each other)
2. bunk (each of the two beds that make up a bunk bed)
3. berth, couchette (on a ship or train)

   Synonym: camarote

4. litter (vehicle)

   Synonym: carruaje

• “litera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025