literatura
/liteɾaˈtuɾa/ · B2 · noun · f
literature
📚 literatura = littera (letter) + -tura: what is made of letters
From Latin litteratura, built on littera, meaning letter. The same root gives English literal and letter. Its last syllable is stressed: li-te-ra-TU-ra. It is feminine, so it takes la: la literatura.