livre

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From French livre.

Noun

livre (plural livres)

1. (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 [...].

Anagrams

• liver, rivel, viler

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French

Pronunciation

• audio (un livre)

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /livʁ/

Etymology 1

From Old French, borrowed from Latin liber.

Noun

livre m (plural livres)

1. book

Related terms

• librairie f

Etymology 2

From Latin libra.

Noun

livre f (plural livres)

1. pound (unit of weight)
2. pound (unit of currency)

See also

• (currency): franc, sou, chelin

Etymology 3

Verb

livre

1. first-person singular present indicative of livrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of livrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of livrer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of livrer
5. second-person singular imperative of livrer

References

• etymology

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Jèrriais

Etymology 1

From Latin liber

Noun

livre m (plural livres)

1. book

Derived terms

Derived terms

garder les livres (“to keep books, book-keep”) livre d'exèrcice (“exercise book”)

livre d'priéthes (“prayer book”)

Etymology 2

From Latin libra.

Noun

livre f (plural livres)

1. (unit of measure) pound

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese livre, libre, from Latin līber, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”).

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈli.vɾɨ/
• Hyphenation: li‧vre

Adjective

livre

1. free
2. unoccupied
3. clear, open