The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromλῑ́τρᾱ“a pound”
- English todaylitrameter
Borrowed from Ancient Greek λῑ́τρᾱ (lī́trā, “a pound”) + -meter.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
litrameter
Today it means: An instrument for measuring the specific gravity of liquids by the height to which they rise in vertical tubes under a definite air pressure. Full definition →
Ancient Greek λῑ́τρᾱ