Where does “lȉtar” come from?

lȉtar (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα, from Proto-Italic *līðrā — ingot.

lȉtar (Serbo-Croatian): liter, litre metric unit of measurement

Definitions

  1. liter, litre metric unit of measurement

Ancestry of “lȉtar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Medieval Latinlitra—
2Ancient Greekλίτραlitra, a Sicilian silver coin; libra, a unit of...
3Proto-Italic*līðrāingot

Words derived from “lȉtar”

Every word from Proto-Italic *līðrā →Every word from Ancient Greek λίτρα →Every word from Medieval Latin litra →