Words that come from Medieval Latin “litra”

75 words across 24 languages descend from Medieval Latin litra — including litre, millilitre, hectolitre, kilolitre, hectoliter, microlitre, picolitre, megalitre.

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English (21)

Italian (11)

French (5)

Spanish (5)

Finnish (5)

Galician (4)

Portuguese (3)

Catalan (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Swahili (2)

Chavacano (1)

Japanese (1)

Korean (1)

Venetian (1)

Zulu (1)

Burmese (1)

Lao (1)

Dutch (1)

Thai (1)

Romanian (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Hindi (1)

Norman (1)