literatura

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See also: literatúra, literatūra, literatūrā, literatură, literaturą, literatūrą, and łiteratura

Aragonese

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liteɾaˈtuɾa/
  • Rhymes: -uɾa
  • Syllabification: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

literatura f

  1. literature

References

  • “literatura”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Catalan

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

literatura f (plural literatures)

  1. literature

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Further reading

Czech

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.

Pronunciation

Noun

literatura f

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

Declension

Declension of literatura (hard feminine)
singular plural
nominative literatura literatury
genitive literatury literatur
dative literatuře literaturám
accusative literaturu literatury
vocative literaturo literatury
locative literatuře literaturách
instrumental literaturou literaturami

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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):
  • 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 inan

  1. literature

Declension

Declension of literatura
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative literatura literaturje literatury
Genitive literatury literaturowu literaturow
Dative literaturje literaturoma literaturam
Accusative literaturu literaturje literatury
Instrumental literaturu literaturoma literaturami
Locative literaturje literaturoma literaturach

Further reading

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

Polish

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra. First attested in 1754. Compare Silesian literatura.

Pronunciation

Noun

literatura f (abbreviation lit.)

  1. literature (body of all written works)
  2. literature (all papers, treatises, etc.)
  3. (education) literature (study of written works)
  4. literature (all the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject)
  5. (obsolete) stylistics
    Synonym: stylistyka
  6. (obsolete) philology
    Synonym: filologia
  7. (obsolete) large amount of text to read

Declension

Declension of literatura
singular plural
nominative literatura literatury
genitive literatury literatur
dative literaturze literaturom
accusative literaturę literatury
instrumental literaturą literaturami
locative literaturze literaturach
vocative literaturo literatury

Derived terms

nouns

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adjectives
adverbs
nouns
verbs

Descendants

  • → Kashubian: lëteratura

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), literatura is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 13 times in scientific texts, 6 times in news, 24 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 61 times, making it the 1071st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

  1. ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “literatura”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  2. ^ Krystyna Długosz-Kurczabowa (2021) “litera”, in Wielki słownik etymologiczno-historyczny języka polskiego, →ISBN
  3. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “literatura”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  4. ^ “LITERATURA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 27.09.2019
  5. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “literatura”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 220

Further reading

Portuguese

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

  • Audio (BR)(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)

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.

Noun

literatúra f (Cyrillic spelling литерату́ра)

  1. literature

Declension

Declension of literatura
singular plural
nominative literatura literature
genitive literature literatura
dative literaturi literaturama
accusative literaturu literature
vocative literaturo literature
locative literaturi literaturama
instrumental literaturom literaturama

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Literatur.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /litɛraˈtura/
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Syllabification: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

literatura f

  1. literature (the body of all written works)

Further reading

  • Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “literatura”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKRBL, page 93
  • Aleksandra Wencel (2023) “literatura”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski‎, page 374

Slovene

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.

Pronunciation

Noun

literatȗra f

  1. literature (body of all written works)

Inflection

 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
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

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liteɾaˈtuɾa/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uɾa
  • Syllabification: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

literatura f (plural literaturas)

  1. literature

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Further reading

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish literatura, from Latin litterātūra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liteɾaˈtuɾa/,
  • Hyphenation: li‧te‧ra‧tu‧ra

Noun

literatura (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜆᜒᜇᜆᜓᜇ)

  1. literature
    Synonym: panitikan

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Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra.

Noun

literatura f

  1. literature

Declension

Declension of literatura
singular dual plural
nominative literatura literaturje literatury
genitive literatury literaturow literaturow
dative literaturje literaturomaj literaturam
accusative literaturu literaturje literatury
instrumental literaturu literaturomaj literaturami
locative literaturje literaturomaj literaturach
vocative literatura literaturje literatury

References

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