libra

(Inglese)

Noun

1. (feminine) English or American pound avoirdupois (a unit of mass equivalent to 453.6 g)
2. (feminine, historical) libra, Spanish pound (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 460 g)
3. (feminine) British pound (the currency of the United Kingdom and its dependencies, originally notionally equivalent to a pound of stirling silver)
4. (feminine, historical) pound (various other currencies originally notionally equivalent to a pound of gold or silver)

Verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) inflection of librar:
2. (form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of librar:

librar

1. (transitive) to save, to rescue, to deliver, to preserve
2. to free, to exempt
3. (transitive) to place, to put (hope, trust)
4. (transitive) to issue (a check, a decree)
5. to make (an appointment)
6. (transitive) to wage, to engage (battle, war)
7. (intransitive) to give birth
8. (intransitive) to expel the placenta
9. (intransitive) to be free; to get off

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li‧bra

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈlibɾa/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine galiziano: -

Affine portoghese: libra

Affine catalano: lliura

In summary

From Latin libra (“Roman pound, scale”). Doublet of lira. In reference to the English unit, a calque of English pound. Cognate with Galician and Portuguese libra and Catalan lliura.

Concetti

libbra

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sterlina

💷

lira

lira sterlina

bilancia

cancelletto

libra

💷

sterlina inglese

sinonimi

libra esterlina

almohadilla

numeral

número

🔢

perrera

libra del troy

lb

500 gramos en colombia

gato

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Traduzioni

pound

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Pfund

livre

📖

libra

funt

pond

lliura

quid

libra esterlina

βαράω

talentum

جنيه

💷

lliura esterlina

pound sterling

Libra

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