lettre

See also: lettré

English

Noun

lettre (plural lettres)

1. Obsolete form of letter.

Anagrams

• letter, tetrel

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French letre, inherited from Latin littera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛtʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛtʁ

Noun

lettre f (plural lettres)

1. letter (written character)
2. letter (written message)

   Synonym: épître

3. (figuratively) the literal meaning, the plain meaning of something

   Antonym: esprit

Derived terms

• à la lettre
• après la lettre
• au pied de la lettre
• avant la lettre
• avec la lettre
• avoir des lettres
• boîte aux lettres
• femme de lettres
• homme de lettres
• lettre de cachet
• lettre de change
• lettre de château
• lettre de créance
• lettre de motivation
• lettre de noblesse
• lettre de recommandation
• lettre d’amour
• lettre d’information
• lettres classiques
• passer comme une lettre à la poste
• rester lettre morte

 

Related terms

• allitération
• bilitère
• littéral
• littéraire
• trilitère

Further reading

• “lettre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Hungarian

Etymology

lett +‎ -re

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛtrɛ]
• Hyphenation: lett‧re

Adjective

lettre

1. sublative singular of lett

Noun

lettre

1. sublative singular of lett

Middle English

Alternative forms

• leattre, letter, lettyr

Etymology

From Old French letre; ultimately from Latin littera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛtər/, /ˈlɛtrə/

Noun

lettre (plural lettres)

1. letter (of the alphabet), character
2. letter (for communication)
3. report, request, or other formal instrument of communication
4. written text, especially that used as a resource
5. wording, literal reading

Synonyms

• (character): bocrune
• (character): bocstaff
• (document): writrune

Related terms

• lettres patentes

Descendants

• English: letter

References

• “lettre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.

Middle French

Etymology

Old French letre, from Latin littera.

Noun

lettre f (plural lettres)

1. letter (written character)
2. letter (written message)

Norman

Etymology

From Old French letre, from Latin littera.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey):

  (file)

Noun

lettre f (plural lettres)

1. (Jersey) letter (written character, written message)