ligature

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ-der. Latin ligō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh2? Latin -tūra Late Latin ligātūrabor. Middle French ligaturebor. Middle English ligature English ligature From Middle English ligature, from Middle French ligature, from Late Latin ligātūra, from Latin ligātus, past participle of ligāre (“to tie, bind”).

81 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: ligaturë — act of tying
• Bulgarian: лигатура (ligatura) — act of tying
• Dutch: ligatuur — act of tying
• Dutch: verbinding — act of tying
• Finnish: sitominen — act of tying
• Greek: δεσμός (desmós) — act of tying
• Hungarian: lekötés — act of tying
• Hungarian: elkötés — act of tying
• Hungarian: összekötés — act of tying
• Italian: legatura — act of tying
• Latin: ligātūra — act of tying
• Norwegian Bokmål: knytting — act of tying
• Norwegian Nynorsk: knyting — act of tying
• Portuguese: ligação — act of tying
• Romanian: legare — act of tying
• Romanian: legătură — act of tying
• Russian: лигату́ра (ligatúra) — act of tying
• Catalan: lligada — cord or similar used to tie something
• Catalan: lligadura — cord or similar used to tie something
• Dutch: afbinding — cord or similar used to tie something
• Dutch: band — cord or similar used to tie something
• Dutch: verbinding — cord or similar used to tie something
• Finnish: ligatuuri — cord or similar used to tie something
• Finnish: side — cord or similar used to tie something
• Finnish: sidos — cord or similar used to tie something
• Plautdietsch: Ombinjsel — cord or similar used to tie something
• Romanian: frânghie — cord or similar used to tie something
• Romanian: șnur — cord or similar used to tie something
• Romanian: sfoară — cord or similar used to tie something
• Romanian: funie — cord or similar used to tie something
• Armenian: կցագիր (kcʻagir) — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Armenian: լիգատուրա (ligatura) — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Bengali: যুক্তাক্ষর (juktakkhor) — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Bengali: যুক্তবর্ণ (juktoborno) — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Chinese Mandarin: 合字 (hézì) — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Czech: slitek — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Czech: ligatura — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Danish: ligatur — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Dutch: ligatuur — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Finnish: ligatuuri — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• French: ligature — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Georgian: ლიგატურა (ligaṭura) — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• German: Ligatur — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Greek: λιγκατούρα (ligkatoúra) — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Ancient Greek: ὑφέν (huphén) — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Hindi: संयुक्ताक्षर (sãyuktākṣar) — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Hungarian: ligatúra — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Irish: nasclitir — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Italian: logotipo — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Italian: legatura — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Japanese: 合字 (gōji) — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Korean: 합자 (hapja) — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Malayalam: കൂട്ടക്ഷരം (kūṭṭakṣaraṁ) — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Norwegian Bokmål: abbreviatur — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Norwegian Nynorsk: abbreviatur — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Portuguese: ligatura — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Romanian: ligatură — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Russian: лигату́ра (ligatúra) — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Russian: вязь (vjazʹ) — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Serbo-Croatian: лигатура — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Serbo-Croatian: ligatura — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Spanish: ligadura — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Swedish: ligatur — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Tagalog: pang-angkop — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Tamil: கூட்டெழுத்து (kūṭṭeḻuttu) — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Thai: ตัวแฝด (dtuua-fɛ̀ɛt) — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Welsh: clymlythyren — typography: character that combines multiple letters
• Bulgarian: легато (legato) — music: group of notes played as a musical phrase
• Dutch: ligatuur — music: group of notes played as a musical phrase
• Finnish: ligatuuri — music: group of notes played as a musical phrase
• German: Ligatur — music: group of notes played as a musical phrase
• Greek: λιγκατούρα (ligkatoúra) — music: group of notes played as a musical phrase
• Hungarian: kötőív — music: group of notes played as a musical phrase
• Irish: ceangal — music: group of notes played as a musical phrase
• Norwegian Bokmål: abbreviatur — music: group of notes played as a musical phrase
• Norwegian Nynorsk: abbreviatur — music: group of notes played as a musical phrase
• Russian: лигату́ра (ligatúra) — music: group of notes played as a musical phrase
• Serbo-Croatian: ligatura — music: group of notes played as a musical phrase
• Spanish: ligadura — music: group of notes played as a musical phrase
• Finnish: ligatuuri — piece used to hold a reed to the mouthpiece
• Finnish: kiristin — piece used to hold a reed to the mouthpiece