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litera.

bunk bed (piece of furniture made up of two beds stacked on top of each other)

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Meaning & usage

noun/liˈteɾa/[liˈt̪e.ɾa]
  1. bunk bed (piece of furniture made up of two beds stacked on top of each other)

    feminine
  2. bunk (each of the two beds that make up a bunk bed)

    feminine
  3. berth, couchette (on a ship or train)

    feminine
  4. litter (vehicle)

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der. Latin lectus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -a Latin -āria Late Latin lectuāria Old Catalan litera Catalan lliterabor. Spanish litera Borrowed from Catalan llitera, from Late Latin lectuāria, from Latin lectus (“bed”). First attested in 1600. A native Castilian outcome, for comparison, may have been *lechera.

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