litera

bunk bed (piece of furniture made up of two beds stacked on top of each other); bunk (each of the two beds that make up a bunk bed); berth, couchette (on a ship or train); litter (vehicle)

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der. Latin lectus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Latin -āria Late Latin lectuāria Old Catalan litera Catalan lliterabor. Spanish litera Borrowed from Catalan llitera, from Late Latin lectuāria, from Latin lectus (“bed”). First attested in 1600. A native Castilian outcome, for comparison, may have been *lechera.