llitera

Catalan

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der.

Latin lectus

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārius

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Italic *-ā

Latin -a

Latin -āria

Late Latin lectuāria

Old Catalan litera

Catalan llitera

Inherited from Old Catalan litera, from Late Latin lectuāria, derived from Latin lectus (“bed”). By surface analysis, llit +‎ -era.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ʎiˈte̞.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [ʎiˈte.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ʎiˈte.ɾa]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

llitera f (plural lliteres)

1. litter, stretcher
2. gurney
3. bunk (a built-in bed on board a ship)
4. bunk bed
5. straw cot

Related terms

• llit

Descendants

• → Asturian: llitera
• → Aragonese: litera
• → Basque: litera
• → Galician: liteira
• → Portuguese: liteira
• → Spanish: litera

References

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “llitera”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Further reading

• “llitera”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “llitera”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “llitera” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.