litre

British  

/ ˈliːtə /

noun

1. one cubic decimetre

2. (formerly) the volume occupied by 1 kilogram of pure water at 4°C and 760 millimetres of mercury. This is equivalent to 1.000 028 cubic decimetres or about 1.76 pints

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Etymology

Origin of litre

C19: from French, from Medieval Latin litra, from Greek: a unit of weight

Example Sentences

Then I asked what the To-do was about, and was told that he stood indebted but for Eight Sols, for Half a Litre of Wine, and that they could not account for his Fury.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus

Litre Pound = 4536⁄10000 = 10000⁄22046 = 1⁄2� 10⁄11� 484⁄485� 29391⁄29392 ...

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

Litre, lē′tr, n. the unit of the French measures of capacity, both dry and liquid.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various