Words that come from Old Latin leitera

400 words across 55 languages descend from Old Latin leitera — including letter, literary, literally, literacy, literal, illiterate, literate, newsletter.

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English (177)

Latin (20)

Dutch (20)

Portuguese (19)

French (14)

Italian (13)

Irish (12)

Esperanto (12)

Manx (11)

Spanish (11)

Welsh (7)

Catalan (5)

Polish (5)

Japanese (5)

Middle French (4)

Old French (4)

Scottish Gaelic (4)

German (4)

Galician (3)

Afrikaans (3)

Russian (3)

Norman (3)

Serbo-Croatian (3)

Old Irish (2)

Cornish (2)

Swedish (2)

Middle Irish (2)

Middle English (2)

Old Portuguese (2)

Chavacano (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Hawaiian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Friulian (1)

Latvian (1)

Albanian (1)

Sicilian (1)

Asturian (1)

Hebrew (1)

Slovak (1)

Czech (1)

Slovene (1)

Finnish (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Estonian (1)

Malagasy (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Romanian (1)

Romansch (1)

New Latin (1)

Danish (1)

Classical Nahuatl (1)

Late Latin (1)