livro

See also: livro-

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]‎^[1] (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

• Accademia della Crusca (p. 1961), “livro”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (in Italian), volume 9, page 172

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish libro, from Latin liber, librum.

Noun

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

1. book

Portuguese

Livro

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈli.vɾu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈli.vɾu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈli.vɾo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈli.vɾu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈli.vɾu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈli.bɾu/ [ˈli.βɾu]

• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈli.vɾʷ/

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• 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.

Derived terms

• livrão (augmentative)
• livrinho (diminutive)

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: libru
• Tetum: livru

Etymology 2

Verb

livro

1. first-person singular present indicative of livrar