libra

Meaning

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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Concepts

pound

💷

quid

pound sterling

Libra

♎

pound

💷

sterling

Balance

British pound

British pound sterling

Libra the Balance

Libra the Scales

sov

scales

lb

nicker

scale

hash

#️⃣

Synonyms

libra esterlina

almohadilla

numeral

número

🔢

perrera

libra del troy

lb

500 gramos en colombia

gato

😺

Translations

Pfund

livre

📖

libbra

💷

libra

pond

lliura

sterlina

💷

lira sterlina

lira

bilancia

βαράω

جنيه

💷

talentum

libra esterlina

Hyphenated as

li‧bra

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlibɾa/

Etymology

Cognate with Galician: -

Cognate with Portuguese: libra

Cognate with Catalan: 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.