Other forms: litres
A litre is the basic unit of liquid volume. Two litres of milk, litres per hundred kilometres, a litre bottle.
It is a thousand cubic centimetres, and a litre of water weighs almost exactly a kilogram, which is not a coincidence — the metric system was built that way. This is the British spelling; American writing has liter. Note that the litre is not strictly an SI unit but is accepted for use with it.
1nounlitreA unit of liquid volume, a thousand cubic centimetres.
“Buy a litre of milk on your way home, please.”
litre is a unit of volume.
Also accepted in games: liter
French litre comes through Medieval Latin from Greek litra, a Sicilian measure of weight.
Ancient Greek
λίτρα — a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight
Medieval Latin
litra
French
litre
English, today
litre
From French litre, from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (“a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”). Related to Latin lībra. a doublet of arratel and libbra and Libra and libra and lira and litra and livre and rottol.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA