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Why do they use the "lbs." abbreviation for pounds?
The letters "l" and "b" aren't even in the word "pound". :-/
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
lbs. = libras (pounds) = Latin
Source(s): Bilingual - davidkenmuirLv 41 decade ago
b/c its named after the latin word libra
[Q] From Andrea: “Why are pounds, when used as a weight, abbreviated lbs?”
[A] The origin is in the Latin word libra, which could mean both balance scales (hence the symbol for the astrological sign Libra, which was named after a constellation that was thought to resemble scales) and also a pound weight, for which the full expression was libra pondo, the second word being the origin of our pound.
Source(s): http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pou1.htm - Anonymous1 decade ago
The abbreviation lb comes from the Latin word libra, meaning "scales, balances", which also described a Roman unit similar to the pound.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass) - Anonymous1 decade ago
Libra pondo which was the Latin unit of measurement.
It's like lead. Pb never appears in it, but the Latin word for lead is Plumbum.
