Dictionaries › Catalan

llitera

Pronunciation: [ʎiˈte̞.ɾə]

“llitera” is a Catalan word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  1. litter, stretcher
  2. gurney
  3. bunk (a built-in bed on board a ship)
  4. bunk bed
  5. straw cot

In Catalan

  1. Vehicle consistent en una plataforma muntada damunt de dues barres.
  2. Llit lleuger per al transport de malalts o cadàvers.
  3. Llit fix en una cabina d’una embarcació, un tren.
  4. Conjunt de dos o tres llits, l'un damunt de l'altre.

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan litera, from Late Latin lectuāria, derived from Latin lectus (“bed”). By surface analysis, llit + -era.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “llitera” there

More Catalan words

About this dictionary

The Catalan dictionary on Glottosphere has 49,075 entries with a page. Browse the Catalan dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Definitions in Catalan are from the Catalan Wiktionary, under the same licence.