Unit of capacity to measure liquids and other fluids equivalent to 1000?? cm³ of pure water, created in 1793 as a French republican unit. The name has a remote Greek origin by 955; 953; 964; p961; 945; ( litra "pound, measure of weight of 12 ounces") which the Latin incorporated as litra, ae evolved to litron already in the Middle Ages as a measure of liquids, which the French took as litre, from where it passed to Spanish. Its symbol is L, although it is also written in lowercase.
