litura

English

Etymology

From Latin litūra.

Noun

litura (plural liturae)

1. (zoology) A spot growing paler at one end.

Related terms

• liturate

Anagrams

• ritual

Latin

Noun

litūra f (genitive litūrae); first declension

1. smearing, anointing
2. blotting out, erasure, correction
3. smear, smudge, blot
4. alteration

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	litūra	litūrae
genitive	litūrae	litūrārum
dative	litūrae	litūrīs
accusative	litūram	litūrās
ablative	litūrā	litūrīs
vocative	litūra	litūrae

References

• “litura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “litura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• litura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• litura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.