lettre

lettre (plural lettres)

1. Obsolete form of letter.

• letter, tetrel

Inherited from Old French letre, inherited from Latin littera.

• IPA^(key): /lɛtʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtʁ

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

• allitération
• bilitère
• littéral
• littéraire
• trilitère

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

lett +‎ -re

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

lettre

1. sublative singular of lett

lettre

1. sublative singular of lett

• leattre, letter, lettyr

From Old French letre; ultimately from Latin littera.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛtər/, /ˈlɛtrə/

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

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

• lettres patentes

• English: letter

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

Old French letre, from Latin littera.

lettre f (plural lettres)

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

From Old French letre, from Latin littera.

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lettre f (plural lettres)

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