lettre
French
noun
Definitions
- letter written character
- letter written message
- (figuratively) the literal meaning, the plain meaning of something
Etymology
Inherited from Old French letre inherited from Latin littera (letter, letter of the alphabet, epistle, in plural).
Origin
Latin
littera
Gloss
letter, letter of the alphabet, epistle, in plural
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- French letter English
- airletter English
- beletter English
- bloodletter English
- letter English
- letteral English
- letterboard English
- letterbook English
- letterbox English
- lettercard English
- letteree English
- letterer English
- letterform English
- letterfounder English
- letterhack English
- letterhead English
- letterheading English
- letterless English
- letterlike English
- letterly English
- letterman English
- letterplace English
- letterpress English
- letterspace English
- letterspacing English
- letterweight English
- letterwinner English
- letterwise English
- letterwood English
- letterzine English
- literation English
- nonletter English
- pseudoletter English
- reletter English
- teleletter English
- littera Latin
- litteralis Latin
- litteratim Latin
- litterator Latin
- capolettera Italian
- lettera Italian
- bilitère French
- lettrer French
- trilitère French
- литера Russian
- letra Spanish, Castilian
- διφθέρα Ancient Greek
- διφθέρᾱ Ancient Greek
- transliterar Portuguese
- レター Japanese
- litera Polish
- letter Middle English
- lettre Middle English
- letre Old French
- lettre Old French
- letero Esperanto
- litero Esperanto
- lletra Catalan, Valencian
- llythyr Welsh
- lettere Middle Dutch
- litera Latvian
- liter Old Irish
- letër Albanian
- letra Old Portuguese
- літера Ukrainian
- letra Occitan
- літара Belarusian
- letra Romansh
- lletra Asturian
- letare Friulian
- littra Sicilian
- łétara Venetian
- lether Cornish
- lyther Cornish
- latera Dalmatian
- leka Hawaiian
- litera Malagasy
- leitera Old Latin