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See also: livré and Livre

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from French livre. Doublet of arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, lira, litra, litre, and rottol.

Pronunciation

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, published 2007, page 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, published 2003, page 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 […] .
  2. (obsolete) A lira
  3. (historical) An ancient French unit of weight, equal to about 1 avoirdupois pound.

Derived terms

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Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin liber.

Noun

livre m (plural livres)

  1. book

Franco-Provençal

Noun

livre

  1. plural of livra

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French livre, from Old French livre, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin librum. The strictly inherited form would be *loivre. Doublet of liber.

Noun

livre m (plural livres)

  1. book
    Synonym: bouquin
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Haitian Creole: liv
  • Louisiana Creole: liv
  • Mauritian Creole: liv
  • Seychellois Creole: liv

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle French livre, from Old French livre, from Latin lībra.

Noun

livre f (plural livres)

  1. pound (unit of weight)
    1. (Europe, informal) metrical pound, half a kilogramme, 500 g
    2. (North America) imperial pound ≈ 454 g
    3. (historical) various values between 300 and 600 g
  2. pound (unit of currency)
  3. (Louisiana) grade (level)
Derived terms
Descendants
See also

Etymology 3

Verb

livre

  1. inflection of livrer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Middle English

Noun

livre

  1. alternative form of lyvere (“liver”)

Middle French

Etymology 1

From Old French livre, from Latin liber.

Noun

livre m (plural livres)

  1. book
Descendants
  • French: livre
    • Haitian Creole: liv
    • Louisiana Creole: liv
    • Mauritian Creole: liv
    • Seychellois Creole: liv

Etymology 2

From Old French livre, from Latin lībra.

Noun

livre f (plural livres)

  1. scales
  2. pound (unit of weight varying between 380g and 552g)
  3. pound (unit of currency)
Descendants

Etymology 3

From Old French livre, from Latin līber.

Adjective

livre m or f (plural livres)

  1. free; at liberty

References

  • livre on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
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Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French livre, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin liber, librum.

Noun

livre m (plural livres)

  1. (Jersey) book
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. pound (unit of measure of mass)
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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

livre n (definite singular livreet, indefinite plural livre or livreer, definite plural livrea or livreene)

  1. alternative form of livré

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

livre n (definite singular livreet, indefinite plural livre, definite plural livrea)

  1. alternative form of livré

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Old French

Etymology 1

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin liber, librum.

Noun

livre oblique singular, m (oblique plural livres, nominative singular livres, nominative plural livre)

  1. book (collection of sheets of paper in a specific order)
    • 1260–1267, Brunetto Latini, “Cist premiers livres parole de la naissance de toutes choses [This first book talks about the birth of all things]” (chapter 1), Livre I - Premiere partie [First book - First part], in Livres dou Tresor [Book of the treasure]; republished as Polycarpe Chabaille, compiler, Li livres dou tresor par Brunetto Latini‎, Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1863, page 1:
      si come li sires qui vuet en petit leu amasser choses de grandisme vaillance […] por acroistre son pooir […] i met il les plus chieres choses et les plus precieux joiaus que il puet, selonc sa bone entencion, tout autressi est li cors de cest livre compilez de sapience
      Just like the lord, who wishes to accumulate very valuable things in a tiny place […] in order to increase his power, […] puts there—according to his good intention—the dearest things and the most precious jewels he can, so the body of this book is filled with knowledge
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Latin lībra.

Noun

livre oblique singular, f (oblique plural livres, nominative singular livre, nominative plural livres)

  1. livre (medieval French equivalent of a monetary pound)
  2. pound (weight)
Usage notes
  • According to the Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française, the actual measure varied between 380g and 552g.
Descendants

Etymology 3

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin līber.

Adjective

livre m (oblique and nominative feminine singular livre)

  1. free; at liberty
Descendants

References

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
 

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese livre, libre, from Latin līber, from Old Latin loeber, from Proto-Italic *louðeros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ-er-os, from *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”).

Adjective

livre m or f (plural livres)

  1. free
  2. unoccupied
  3. clear, open
Descendants

Noun

livre m (plural livres)

  1. (soccer) free kick
    Synonym: pontapé livre
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

livre

  1. inflection of livrar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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