litteratura

From littera (“letter”), from Etruscan, from Ancient Greek διφθέρᾱ (diphthérā, “tablet”). Further etymology uncertain.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /lit.te.raːˈtuː.ra/, [lʲɪt̪ːɛräːˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lit.te.raˈtu.ra/, [lit̪ːeräˈt̪uːrä]

litterātūra f (genitive litterātūrae); first declension

1. lettering; alphabet
2. grammar, philology
3. learning, erudition

First-declension noun.

• “litteratura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “litteratura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• litteratura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• litteratura in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

litteratura f (plural litteraturas)

1. Obsolete spelling of literatura.