literatura

Aragonese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra (grammar; philology), from littera (letter).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liteɾaˈtuɾa/
  • Rhymes: -uɾa
  • Syllabification: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

literatura f

  1. literature

References

  • literatura”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra (grammar; philology), from littera (letter).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [li.tə.ɾəˈtu.ɾə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [li.te.ɾaˈtu.ɾa]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -uɾa

Noun

literatura f (plural literatures)

  1. literature

Further reading

Czech

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɪtɛratura]

Noun

literatura f

  1. literature
    Synonyms: písemnictví, slovesnost
  2. bibliography (section of a written work)

Declension

Derived terms

  • literát m

Further reading

  • literatura in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • literatura in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • literatura in Internetová jazyková příručka

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin litterātūra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [literaˈtura]
  • Audio:
    (file)
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Hyphenation: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra

Adjective

literatura (accusative singular literaturan, plural literaturaj, accusative plural literaturajn)

  1. literary

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.

Noun

literatura f inan

  1. literature

Declension

Further reading

  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “literatura”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.[1][2][3] First attested in 1754.[4] Compare Silesian literatura.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /li.tɛ.raˈtu.ra/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /li.tɛ.raˈtu.ra/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Syllabification: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

literatura f (abbreviation lit.)

  1. literature (body of all written works)
  2. literature (all papers, treatises, etc.)
  3. (education) literature (study of written works)
  4. literature (all the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject)
  5. (obsolete) stylistics
    Synonym: stylistyka
  6. (obsolete) philology
    Synonym: filologia
  7. (obsolete) large amount of text to read

Declension

Derived terms

nouns
adjectives
adverbs
nouns
verbs

Descendants

  • Kashubian: lëteratura

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), literatura is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 6 times in news, 24 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 61 times, making it the 1071st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]

References

  1. Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “literatura”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  2. Krystyna Długosz-Kurczabowa (2021) “litera”, in Wielki słownik etymologiczno-historyczny języka polskiego, →ISBN
  3. Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “literatura”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  4. LITERATURA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 27.09.2019
  5. Ida Kurcz (1990) “literatura”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 220

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra (grammar; philology), from littera (letter). Doublet of letradura.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /li.te.ɾaˈtu.ɾɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /li.te.ɾaˈtu.ɾa/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /li.tɨ.ɾɐˈtu.ɾɐ/

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -uɾɐ
  • Hyphenation: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

literatura f (plural literaturas)

  1. literature (a body of written works collectively)
    Synonym: (obsolete) letradura
    1. (literature, loosely) literature (the body of all written works)
    2. (literature) literature (the body of written works from a given culture, nation or era)
    3. (literature) literature (written material considered historically important or artistically superior)
    4. (sciences) literature (scholarly works on a particular subject)
      Synonym: bibliografia
  2. (literature) literature (the study of written works for their artistic quality)
  3. (literature, loosely) literature (bodies of written and oral text)

Alternative forms

Derived terms

  • literatura de cordel
  • literatura oral
  • literatura popular

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.

Noun

literatúra f (Cyrillic spelling литерату́ра)

  1. literature

Declension

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Literatur.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /litɛraˈtura/
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Syllabification: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

literatura f

  1. literature (the body of all written works)

Further reading

  • Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “literatura”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKR[i]BL, page 93
  • Aleksandra Wencel (2023) “literatura”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski, page 374

Slovene

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /litɛratúːra/

Noun

literatȗra f

  1. literature (body of all written works)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. literatúra
gen. sing. literatúre
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
literatúra literatúri literatúre
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
literatúre literatúr literatúr
dative
(dajȃlnik)
literatúri literatúrama literatúram
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
literatúro literatúri literatúre
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
literatúri literatúrah literatúrah
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
literatúro literatúrama literatúrami

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra (grammar; philology), from littera (letter).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liteɾaˈtuɾa/ [li.t̪e.ɾaˈt̪u.ɾa]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uɾa
  • Syllabification: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

literatura f (plural literaturas)

  1. literature

Derived terms

Further reading

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish literatura, from Latin litterātūra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liteɾaˈtuɾa/, [lɪ.tɛ.ɾɐˈtu.ɾɐ]
  • Hyphenation: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

literatura (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜆᜒᜇᜆᜓᜇ)

  1. literature
    Synonym: panitikan

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.

Noun

literatura f

  1. literature

Declension

References

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