literatura
Portuguese
/li.te.ɾa.ˈtu.ɾa/, /li.tɨ.ɾɐ.ˈtu.ɾɐ/
noun
Definitions
- (uncountable) literature (body of all written works)
- literature (collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture)
- literature (all published material in academic journals on a particular subject)
Etymology
Derived from Latin litterātūra (philology, grammar) derived from Ancient Greek διφθέρᾱ (tablet, parchment, writing material, leather).
Origin
Ancient Greek
διφθέρᾱ
Gloss
tablet, parchment, writing material, leather
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
革
Emoji
👨💻 👩💻
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- littera Latin
- litteratura Latin
- litterātūra Latin
- Literatur German
- letteratura Italian
- literatura Spanish, Castilian
- διφθέρᾱ Ancient Greek
- *h₂leyH- Proto-Indo-European
- antiliteratura Portuguese
- literatura Catalan, Valencian
- دفتر Persian
- literatúra Slovak