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Littowe

Littowe is the alternative form of Lettow.

Meaning of Lettow

Proper noun

Lettow

  1. (obsolete) Lithuania (a country in northeastern Europe).
    • The Citie alſo which is called Wil or Vilna, into the caſtle whereof the king of Lettow named Skirgalle fled foꝛ his ſauegard, was, by the valour of the ſayd Earle especially and of his followers, ſurpꝛiſed and taken.1599, Thomas of Walſingham, “The voyage of Henry Earle of Derbie, after Duke of Hereford, and laſtly king of England […] ”, in Richard Hakluyt, transl., The Principal Nauigations, Voyages, Traffiques...

Questions about Littowe

What is Littowe the alternative form of?
Littowe is the alternative form of Lettow.

Words near Littowe in the dictionary

  1. littorine
  2. littorinid
  3. littorinids
  4. littorinimorph
  5. littorinimorphs
  6. Littowe
  7. Littrell
  8. Littrells
  9. Littrow
  10. Littrow mirror
  11. Littrow prism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Littowe (page history and authors); Lettow (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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