livre
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
livre (plural livres)
- (historical) A unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 115:
- They like to see them awarded comfortable pensions. Is it 700,000 livres a year to the Polignac family?
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 30:
- He never, it should be noted, totally renounced his inheritance: a critic of the court round, he benefited to the tune of a cool two million livres a year from royal largesse [...].
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 115:
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old French, borrowed from Latin liber.
Noun[edit]
livre m (plural livres)
Synonyms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
livre f (plural livres)
See also[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
Verb[edit]
livre
- first-person singular present indicative of livrer
- third-person singular present indicative of livrer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of livrer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of livrer
- second-person singular imperative of livrer
External links[edit]
- “livre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Jèrriais[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
livre m (plural livres)
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
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Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
livre f (plural livres)
- pound (unit of measure of mass)
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Portuguese livre, libre, from Latin līber, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
livre (plural, comparable)
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- French countable nouns
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- French verb forms
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- Jèrriais terms derived from Latin
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- Jèrriais nouns
- roa-jer:Units of measure
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