letras
/ˈletɾas/ · B1 · noun · f
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🎵📚 letras = letters: a song's letters are its lyrics; arts and letters = humanities
Letra means letter (of the alphabet), from Latin littera. In the plural it names the words of a song, and in academia it means the humanities, as in the English phrase men of letters. Facultad de Letras = Faculty of Arts.