letra
Basque
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /letra/ [le.t̪ra]
- Rhymes: -etra
- Hyphenation: le‧tra
Noun
letra inan
Declension
Declension of letra (inanimate, ending in -a)
indefinite | singular | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
absolutive | letra | letra | letrak |
ergative | letrak | letrak | letrek |
dative | letrari | letrari | letrei |
genitive | letraren | letraren | letren |
comitative | letrarekin | letrarekin | letrekin |
causative | letrarengatik | letrarengatik | letrengatik |
benefactive | letrarentzat | letrarentzat | letrentzat |
instrumental | letraz | letraz | letrez |
inessive | letratan | letran | letretan |
locative | letratako | letrako | letretako |
allative | letratara | letrara | letretara |
terminative | letrataraino | letraraino | letretaraino |
directive | letratarantz | letrarantz | letretarantz |
destinative | letratarako | letrarako | letretarako |
ablative | letratatik | letratik | letretatik |
partitive | letrarik | — | — |
prolative | letratzat | — | — |
Derived terms
- kanbio-letra (“bill of exchange”)
- letra etzan (“italics”)
- letra larri (“upper case”)
- letra lodi (“bold”)
- letra xehe (“lower case”)
- letra-gizon
- letra-tipo
- letradun (“learned”)
- letragabe (“illiterate”)
- letragabeko (“illiterate”)
- letraldatu (“to transliterate”)
- letratu (“learned”)
- letraz (“in written form”)
- letrazale
Related terms
- letradu
Chavacano
Classical Nahuatl
Noun
letra
- A letter of the alphabet.
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 10
- in jntlatolpan, vnca in letra. R.
- (in their language was the letter r.)
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 10
References
- Sahagún, Bernardino de (1961) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, transl., Florentine Codex: Book 10 - The People, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page 182
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese letra, letera, from Latin littera (“letter”), from Etruscan [Term?], from Ancient Greek διφθέρα (diphthéra, “tablet”).
Further reading
- “letra”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
Occitan
Pronunciation
Audio (Béarn) (file)
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- lettra (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese letra, letera, from Latin littera (“letter”), from Etruscan [Term?], from Ancient Greek διφθέρα (diphthéra, “tablet”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈle.tɾɐ/
- Hyphenation: le‧tra
Noun
letra f (plural letras)
- letter (letter of the alphabet)
- calligraphy (style of handwriting of a person), handwriting
- Synonyms: caligrafia, escrita
- (informal) font
- Synonym: fonte
- (music) lyrics (words of a song)
- (soccer) a kind of kick, in which the player kicks with the leg opposite to the ball
Coordinate terms
- (letter of the alphabet): glifo, hieróglifo, ideograma, pictograma, runa
Derived terms
- à letra
- boas letras
- letra historiada
- letra média
- letra moçárabe
- letra morta
- letra plena
- letra promissória
- letra toledana
- letras sagradas
- letreiro
- letrista
- tirar de letra
Related terms
- beletrismo
- letrado
- literal
- literário
- literatura
Further reading
- letra on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
Romansch
Etymology
From Latin littera (“letter”), from Etruscan [Term?], from Ancient Greek διφθέρα (diphthéra, “tablet”).
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latin littera (“letter”), from Etruscan [Term?], from Ancient Greek διφθέρα (diphthéra, “tablet”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈletɾa/ [ˈle.t̪ɾa]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -etɾa
- Syllabification: le‧tra
Derived terms
- a la letra
- al pie de la letra
- apurar una letra
- bellas letras
- buenas letras
- con todas las letras
- cotejo de letras
- cuatro letras
- de puño y letra
- dos letras
- hombre de letras
- juntaletras
- letra bastardilla
- letra chica
- letra corrida
- letra de cambio
- letra de guarismo
- letra de imprenta
- letra de mano
- letra de molde
- letra de Tortis
- letra lunar
- letra mayúscula
- letra minúscula
- letra pequeña
- letra por letra
- letra superior
- letra volada
- letra voladita
- letrilla
- mujer de letras
- primeras letras
- sopa de letras
- tipo de letra
- unas letras
Further reading
- “letra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈletɾa/, [ˈlɛt.ɾɐ]
- Hyphenation: let‧ra
Noun
letra (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜆ᜔ᜇ)
- letter (of the alphabet)
- Synonym: titik
- penmanship; style of handwriting
- Synonym: sulat-kamay
- letter type
- Synonym: tipo
- lyrics (of a song)
- Synonym: titik
- style by which letters were made by hands
- Synonyms: pagkakaletra, pagkakapagletra
- literature
- Synonyms: panitikan, literatura
Derived terms
- letra-por-letra
- letrahan
- pagkakaletra
- pagkakapagletra
- pagleletra
- tagaletra
- tagapagletra
Related terms
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