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decalitre

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈdɛkəlɪtə(ɹ)/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

Ten litres. Symbol: daL

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: dekaliter, dekalitre, decaliter, dal, dkl

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: metric capacity unit

History

Etymology

From French décalitre, equivalent to deca- + litre.

Across languages

Translations

74 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: dekalitër — ten liters
  • Arabic: ديكالتر — ten liters
  • Armenian: դեկալիտր (dekalitr) — ten liters
  • Assamese: ডেকালিটাৰ (dekalitar) — ten liters
  • Asturian: decallitru — ten liters
  • Azerbaijani: dekalitr — ten liters
  • Basque: dekalitro — ten liters
  • Belarusian: дэкалітр (dekalitr) — ten liters
  • Bengali: ডেকালিটার (ḍekaliṭar) — ten liters
  • Breton: dekalitr — ten liters
  • Bulgarian: декалитър (dekalitǎr) — ten liters
  • Burmese: ဒက်ကာလီတာ (dakkalita) — ten liters
  • Catalan: decalitre — ten liters
  • Chinese Mandarin: 公斗 (gōngdǒu) — ten liters
  • Czech: dekalitr — ten liters
  • Danish: dekaliter — ten liters
  • Dutch: decaliter — ten liters
  • Esperanto: dekalitro — ten liters
  • Estonian: dekaliiter — ten liters
  • Faroese: dekalitur — ten liters
  • Finnish: dekalitra — ten liters
  • French: décalitre — ten liters
  • West-Frisian: dekaliter — ten liters
  • Friulian: decalitri — ten liters
  • Galician: decalitro — ten liters
  • Georgian: დეკალიტრი (deḳaliṭri) — ten liters
  • German: Dekaliter — ten liters
  • German: Dekaliter — ten liters
  • Greek: δεκάλιτρο (dekálitro) — ten liters
  • Hebrew: דקליטר — ten liters
  • Hindi: डेकालीटर (ḍekālīṭar) — ten liters
  • Hungarian: dekaliter — ten liters
  • Icelandic: dekalítri — ten liters
  • Ido: dekalitro — ten liters
  • Indonesian: dekaliter — ten liters
  • Interlingua: decalitro — ten liters
  • Italian: decalitro — ten liters
  • Japanese: デカリットル (dekarittoru) — ten liters
  • Kazakh: دەكالىيتر (dekalitr) — ten liters
  • Kazakh: декалитр (dekalitr) — ten liters
  • Korean: 데카리터 (dekariteo) — ten liters
  • Kyrgyz: декалитр (dekalitr) — ten liters
  • Latvian: dekalitrs — ten liters
  • Ligurian: decalitro — ten liters
  • Lithuanian: dekalitras — ten liters
  • Luxembourgish: Dekaliter — ten liters
  • Macedonian: декалитар (dekalitar) — ten liters
  • Malay: dekaliter — ten liters
  • Malayalam: ഡെക്കാലീറ്റർ (ḍekkālīṟṟaṟ) — ten liters
  • Mongolian: декалитр (dekalitr) — ten liters
  • Norwegian Bokmål: dekaliter — ten liters
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: dekaliter — ten liters
  • Occitan: decalitre — ten liters
  • Portuguese: decalitro — ten liters
  • Romanian: decalitru — ten liters
  • Russian: декалитр (dekalitr) — ten liters
  • Sardinian: decalitru — ten liters
  • Serbo-Croatian: дѐкалитар — ten liters
  • Serbo-Croatian: dèkalitar — ten liters
  • Sicilian: decalitru — ten liters
  • Slovak: dekaliter — ten liters
  • Slovene: dekaliter — ten liters
  • Spanish: decalitro — ten liters
  • Swedish: dekaliter — ten liters
  • Tamil: டெக்காலிட்டர் (ṭekkāliṭṭar) — ten liters
  • Tatar: декалитр (deqälitr) — ten liters
  • Telugu: డెకాలీటరు (ḍekālīṭaru) — ten liters
  • Thai: เดคาลิตร — ten liters
  • Turkish: dekalitre — ten liters
  • Ukrainian: декалітр (dekalitr) — ten liters
  • Uzbek: dekalitr — ten liters
  • Venetan: decalitro — ten liters
  • Vietnamese: đêcalít — ten liters
  • Welsh: decalitr — ten liters