Alby_da_Wolf on 02 January 2009
| patrice1970 said: In france we call London, Londres ! We are like this ! Sorry ! |
Well, in Italy Londra. But London's original name was the latin "Londinum" 
Anyway, "livre", "lira" and "libra", from the latin "libra", have all the same original meaning, that is "pound". And the original medieval coins with such names were initially worth one pound of silver, although to not let things be so simple , the weight of one pound, unlike the kilogram, varied from one country to the other.
Edit: sorry, didn't read Seneque explaining the same thing. 
