literatura

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra (grammar; philology), from littera (letter).

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /li.tə.ɾəˈtu.ɾə/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /li.te.ɾaˈtu.ɾa/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -uɾa

Noun

literatura f (plural literatures)

  1. literature

Further reading

Czech

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɪtɛratura]

Noun

literatura f

  1. literature
    Synonyms: písemnictví, slovesnost
  2. bibliography (section of a written work)

Declension

Derived terms

  • literát m

Further reading

  • literatura in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • literatura in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • literatura in Internetová jazyková příručka

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin litterātūra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [literaˈtura]
  • Audio:
    (file)
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Hyphenation: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra

Adjective

literatura (accusative singular literaturan, plural literaturaj, accusative plural literaturajn)

  1. literary

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.

Noun

literatura f

  1. literature

Declension

Further reading

  • Starosta, Manfred (1999), literatura”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /li.tɛ.raˈtu.ra/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Syllabification: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

literatura f

  1. literature (body of all written works)
    literatura przedmiotuliterature on a subject/source literature
  2. literature (all the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject)

Declension

Derived terms

nouns
adjectives
adverbs
nouns
verbs

Further reading

  • literatura in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • literatura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra (grammar; philology), from littera (letter). Doublet of letradura.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /li.te.ɾaˈtu.ɾɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /li.te.ɾaˈtu.ɾa/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /li.tɨ.ɾɐˈtu.ɾɐ/

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -uɾɐ
  • Hyphenation: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

literatura f (plural literaturas)

  1. literature (a body of written works collectively)
    Synonym: (obsolete) letradura
    1. (literature, loosely) literature (the body of all written works)
    2. (literature) literature (the body of written works from a given culture, nation or era)
    3. (literature) literature (written material considered historically important or artistically superior)
    4. (sciences) literature (scholarly works on a particular subject)
      Synonym: bibliografia
  2. (literature) literature (the study of written works for their artistic quality)
  3. (literature, loosely) literature (bodies of written and oral text)

Alternative forms

Derived terms

  • literatura de cordel
  • literatura oral
  • literatura popular

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.

Noun

literatúra f (Cyrillic spelling литерату́ра)

  1. literature

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /litɛratúːra/

Noun

literatȗra f

  1. literature (body of all written works)

Inflection

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. literatúra
gen. sing. literatúre
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
literatúra literatúri literatúre
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
literatúre literatúr literatúr
dative
(dajȃlnik)
literatúri literatúrama literatúram
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
literatúro literatúri literatúre
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
literatúri literatúrah literatúrah
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
literatúro literatúrama literatúrami

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra (grammar; philology), from littera (letter).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liteɾaˈtuɾa/ [li.t̪e.ɾaˈt̪u.ɾa]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -uɾa
  • Syllabification: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

literatura f (plural literaturas)

  1. literature

Further reading

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish literatura, from Latin litterātūra.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra
  • IPA(key): /liteɾaˈtuɾa/, [lɪ.te.ɾɐˈtu.ɾɐ]

Noun

literatura

  1. literature
    Synonym: panitikan

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.

Noun

literatura f

  1. literature

Declension

References

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