letra

Borrowed from Spanish letra and French lettre.

• IPA^(key): /letra/ [le.t̪ra]
• Rhymes: -etra
• Hyphenation: le‧tra

letra inan

1. letter of the alphabet

   Synonym: izki

2. handwriting

   Synonym: idazkera

3. (Northern) letter (written message)

   Synonyms: gutun, eskutitz

4. (banking) Short for kanbio-letra (“bill of exchange”).

• “letra”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “letra”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

From Spanish letra (“letter of the alphabet”), from Latin littera.

letra

1. letter of the alphabet

From Spanish letra, from Latin littera.

letra

1. A letter of the alphabet.
   • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 10

     in jntlatolpan, vnca in letra. R.

     (in their language was the letter r.)

• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1961) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, transl., Florentine Codex: Book 10 - The People, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page 182

From Old Galician-Portuguese letra, letera, from Latin littera (“letter”), from Etruscan [Term?], from Ancient Greek διφθέρα (diphthéra, “tablet”).

letra f (plural letras)

1. letter of the alphabet

• “letra”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Borrowed from Tagalog letra.

• (Standard Kankanaey) IPA^(key): /ˈletɾa/ [ˈlet̚.ɾʌ]
  • IPA^(key): (parts of Sabangan) /ˈretɾa/ [ˈret̚.ɾʌ]
• Rhymes: -etɾa
• Syllabification: let‧ra

letra

1. letter of the alphabet

• Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (2016) Ortograpiya di Kankanaëy [Kankanaey Orthography]‎^[1] (in Kankanaey and Tagalog), →ISBN, pages 10-11

From Latin littera.

• Audio (Béarn):

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letra f (plural letras)

1. letter (a symbol in an alphabet)

• lettra (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese letra, letera, from Latin littera (“letter”), from Etruscan [Term?], from Ancient Greek διφθέρα (diphthéra, “tablet”).

• Hyphenation: le‧tra

letra f (plural letras)

1. letter (letter of the alphabet)
2. calligraphy (style of handwriting of a person), handwriting

   Synonyms: caligrafia, escrita

3. (informal) font

   Synonym: fonte

4. (music) lyrics (words of a song)
5. (soccer) a kind of kick, in which the player kicks with the leg opposite to the ball

• (letter of the alphabet): glifo, hieróglifo, ideograma, pictograma, runa

•   letra on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

From Latin littera (“letter”), from Etruscan [Term?], from Ancient Greek διφθέρα (diphthéra, “tablet”).

letra f (plural letras)

1. (Sutsilvan) letter (of the alphabet)

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) bustab
• (Puter, Vallader) custab

Inherited from Latin littera (“letter”), from Etruscan [Term?], from Ancient Greek διφθέρα (diphthéra, “tablet”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈletɾa/ [ˈle.t̪ɾa]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -etɾa
• Syllabification: le‧tra

letra f (plural letras)

1. letter (symbol)

   Hypernym: carácter

2. handwriting
3. lyrics

• → Chavacano: letra
• → Classical Nahuatl: letra
• → Tagalog: letra

• “letra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Borrowed from Spanish letra.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈletɾa/ [ˈlɛt̪.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -etɾa
• Syllabification: let‧ra

letra (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜆ᜔ᜇ)

1. letter (of the alphabet)

   Synonym: titik

2. penmanship; style of handwriting

   Synonym: sulat-kamay

3. letter type

   Synonym: tipo

4. lyrics (of a song)

   Synonym: titik

5. style by which letters were made by hands

   Synonyms: pagkakaletra, pagkakapagletra

6. literature

   Synonyms: panitikan, literatura

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