livro

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.vro/
• Rhymes: -ivro
• Hyphenation: lì‧vro

livro m (plural livri)

1. Obsolete form of libro (“book”).
   • 1350s, anonymous author, “Prologo e primo capitolo [Preface and first chapter]”, in Cronica [Chronicle]‎ (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:

     Dice lo glorioso dottore missore santo Isidoro, nello livro delle Etimologie, che lo primo omo de Grecia che trovassi lettera fu uno Grieco lo quale abbe nome Cadmo.

     The glorious scholar sir saint Isidore, in the book of Etymologies, says that the first man of Greece to discover letters was a Greek whose name was Cadmus.

• Accademia della Crusca (p. 1961), “livro”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (in Italian), volume 9, page 172

From Old Spanish libro, from Latin liber, librum.

livro m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ליב׳רו, plural livros)

1. book

• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈli.vɾʷ/

• Audio (Brazil)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: li‧vro

From Old Galician-Portuguese livro, an early borrowing from Latin librum. Cognate with Galician, Spanish, and Italian libro, Catalan llibre, Occitan libre and French livre.

livro m (plural livros)

1. book

   Livros são janelas abertas para o mundo. ― Books are open windows to the world.

• livrão (augmentative)
• livrinho (diminutive)

• líber

• Kabuverdianu: libru
• Tetum: livru

livro

1. first-person singular present indicative of livrar