libra

English or American pound avoirdupois (a unit of mass equivalent to 453.6 g); libra, Spanish pound (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 460 g); British pound (the currency of the United Kingdom and its dependencies, originally notionally equivalent to a pound of stirling silver); pound (various other currencies originally notionally equivalent to a pound of gold or silver)

From Latin libra (“Roman pound, scale”). Doublet of lira. In reference to the English unit, a calque of English pound. Cognate with Galician and Portuguese libra and Catalan lliura.

Libra (someone with the Libra star sign)

From Latin libra (“Roman pound, scale”). Doublet of lira. In reference to the English unit, a calque of English pound. Cognate with Galician and Portuguese libra and Catalan lliura.