By Southern Living June 13, Save Pin More. Comments Add Comment. Back to story Comment on this project. Tell us what you think Damon Linker. How the Founding Fathers encourage political violence.
Bonnie Kristian. Why banning 'harmful' online speech is a slippery slope. The former Italian currency the "lira" also derives from libra. If all this talk of libra is setting off a light bulb in your head, that's because it's also the name of seventh sign of the zodiac, which is typically symbolized by scales.
That's because the sign is associated with balance, and is related to weights and measurements. As for the word ounce, according to the Encyclopedia Brittanica , it originates from the Latin word uncia , which was the name for both a Roman unit of weight and length. But there's one major exception: "lb" for pound — what?!
You've seen it on grocery signs across America, and people are always talking about losing some "lbs" when dieting, but it hardly makes any sense As The Huffington Post has so cleverly pointed out , "lb" is an abbreviation for the Latin word libra , which is the seventh sign of the zodiac and is symbolized by scales cue lightbulb moment.
The word libra referred to balance or scales in Roman times and was also part of a unit of measurement known as "libra pondo," which when translated is "pound weight" or "a pound by weight. To add even more confusion to the matter, Americans use the word "pound" as a measurement for weight, but the British associate it with their currency, which is known as the pound.
This is because the original value of what was used for money in Britain was equivalent to a pound of silver.
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