köken: (circa 1120). From Latin litteratūra (“lettering, erudition”), from littera (“letter”), from Etruscan, from Ancient Greek διφθέρᾱ (diphthérā, “tablet”).
köken: Inherited from Chagatai [Term?], from Classical Persian اَدَبِیَّات (adabiyyāt), from Arabic أَدَبِيَّاتٌ f pl (ʔadabiyyātun). By surface analysis, adab + -iyot.
literature (a body of written works collectively) · literature (the body of written works from a given culture, nation or era) · literature (written material considered historically important or artistically superior)
çekim: çoğul literaturas
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin litterātūra (“grammar; philology”), from littera (“letter”). Doublet of letradura.
aile: literatura de cordel, literatura oral, literatura popular
çekim: çoğul kirjallisuudet · tamlayan kirjallisuuden
köken: kirjallinen (“literary”) + -uus. Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot in 1831, who, according to a story, coined it so that it could be used to name a new organization that would become the Finnish Literature Society (Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura).
literature (body of all written works) · literature (collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture) · literature (all the papers, treatises, etc., published in academic journals on a particular subject)
çekim: çoğul irodalmak
köken: From ír (“to write”) + -odalom (noun-forming suffix). Perhaps a calque of German Schrifttum. Displaced literatúra. First attested in 1830.