Words that come from Old Latin leitera

359 words across 48 languages descend from Old Latin leitera — including letter, literature, literary, literally, literacy, literal, illiterate, literate.

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English (157)

Italian (17)

Dutch (17)

Portuguese (16)

French (14)

Latin (13)

Irish (12)

Spanish (12)

Esperanto (11)

Manx (11)

Welsh (7)

Catalan (5)

Japanese (5)

Old French (4)

Scottish Gaelic (4)

German (4)

Old Irish (3)

Middle French (3)

Galician (3)

Afrikaans (3)

Polish (3)

Norman (3)

Old Portuguese (3)

Russian (2)

Cornish (2)

Ido (2)

Middle English (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)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Malagasy (1)

Romansch (1)

Danish (1)

Classical Nahuatl (1)

Late Latin (1)

New Latin (1)

British English (1)