livro

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See also: livro-

Galician

Noun

livro m (plural livros, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of libro

Further reading

  • livro” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈli.vro/
  • Rhymes: -ivro
  • Hyphenation: lì‧vro

Noun

livro m (plural livri)

  1. Obsolete form of libro (book).
    • 1350s, anonymous author, “Prologo e primo capitolo [Preface and first chapter]”, in Cronica [Chronicle]‎ (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:
      Dice lo glorioso dottore missore santo Isidoro, nello livro delle Etimologie, che lo primo omo de Grecia che trovassi lettera fu uno Grieco lo quale abbe nome Cadmo.
      The glorious scholar sir saint Isidore, in the book of Etymologies, says that the first man of Greece to discover letters was a Greek whose name was Cadmus.

References

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish libro, from Latin liber, librum.

Noun

livro m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ליב׳רו, plural livros)

  1. book

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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The first printed book

Pronunciation

 
 

  • (Rural Central Brazil) IPA(key):
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  • Rhymes: -ivɾu
  • Hyphenation: li‧vro

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese livro, an early borrowing from Latin librum. Cognate with Galician, Spanish, and Italian libro, Catalan llibre, Occitan libre and French livre.

Noun

livro m (plural livros)

  1. book
    Livros são janelas abertas para o mundo.Books are open windows to the world.
  2. (zoology) omasum (third part of the stomach of ruminants, which internally has numerous folds)
    Synonym: folhoso
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Kabuverdianu: libru
  • Tetum: livru

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

livro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of livrar

Further reading