libra

Significado (Inglês)

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

Freqüência

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Hifenizado como
li‧bra
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈlibɾa/
Etimologia (Inglês)

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.

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