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Why is pounds abbreviated lbs?

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Why is pounds abbreviated lbs?

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  1. "Like most things, it's Latin. Libra means balaces in Latin(like the Zodiac sign), and it was also the name of a Roman unit of mass and was abbreviated lb, the s at the end just means more than one. We must have changed the word without changing the abbreviation."

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  2. It's from the Latin word LIBER.
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