different between acorn vs acre

English

Alternative forms

• achorn (Chester)

Etymology

From Middle English acorne, an alteration (after corn) of earlier akern, from Old English ?cern (“acorn, oak-mast”), from Proto-Germanic *akran?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ógeh? (“berry”). Cognate with Scots aicorn, Saterland Frisian Äkkene, Dutch aker, Danish agern, Low German ecker; Welsh eirin (“plums”), Breton irin (“plum”), Irish airne (“sloe”), Lithuanian úoga, Russian ?????? (jágoda, “berry”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?e?.k??n/, /?e?k?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?e?.k??n/

Noun

acorn (plural acorns)

1. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
2. (nautical) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
3. (zoology) See acorn-shell.
4. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.

Holonyms

• (fruit of an oak): oak

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• acorn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Carno, Coran, Corna, acron, caron, coran, narco, narco-, racon

English

Alternative forms

• aker (archaic)
• acer (-er form, chiefly UK)

Etymology

From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown”), from Proto-West Germanic *ak(k)r, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?é?ros (“field”).

Cognate with Scots acre, aker, acker (“acre, field, arable land”), North Frisian ecir (“field, a measure of land”), West Frisian eker (“field”), Dutch akker (“field”), German Acker (“field, acre”), Norwegian åker (“field”) and Swedish åker (“field”), Icelandic akur (“field”), Latin ager (“land, field, acre, countryside”), Ancient Greek ????? (agrós, “field”), Sanskrit ???? (ájra, “field, plain”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ??k?, IPA^(key): /?e?.k?/
• (General American) enPR: ??k?r, IPA^(key): /?e?.k?/
• Rhymes: -e?k?(?)

Noun

acre (plural acres)

1. An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters.
   1. (Chester, historical) An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
2. Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
3. (informal, usually in the plural) A wide expanse.

4. (informal, usually in the plural) A large quantity.
5. (obsolete) A field.
6. (obsolete) The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yds (?20 m) by 220 yds (?200 m).
7. (obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.

Synonyms

• (approximate): day's math, demath
• (Egyptian): feddan
• (Dutch): morgen
• (French): arpent, arpen, pose
• (India): cawney, cawny, bigha
• (Ireland): Irish acre, collop, plantation acre
• (Roman): juger, jugerum
• (Scottish): Scottish acre, Scots acre, Scotch acre, acair
• (Wales): Welsh acre, cover, cyfair, erw, stang

Hypernyms

• (100 carucates, notionally) See hundred
• (the area able to be plowed by 8 oxen in a year) See carucate
• (the area able to be plowed by two oxen in a year) See virgate
• (the area able to be plowed by an ox in a year) See oxgang
• (the area able to be plowed by an ox in half a season) See nook
• (the area able to be plowed by an ox in ¹?₄ a season) See fardel
• (10 acres, prob. spurious) acreme

Hyponyms

• (¹?₄ acre) See rood
• (¹?₁₆₀ acre) lug, perch, (now chiefly Scottish) fall

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: acra
• Norwegian Bokmål: acre

Translations

References

• Robert Holland, M.R.A.C., A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester, Part I--A to F., English Dialect Society, London, 1884, 3

See also

• international acre
• north forty
• US survey acre
• Weights and measures
• Wikipedia article on the acre
• Hufe

References

Anagrams

• -care, CERA, Care, Cera, Crea, Race, acer, care, e-car, race, race-

French

Etymology

Probably from Old Norse akr reenforced by Old English æcer (“a field, land, that which is sown, sown land, cultivated land; a definite quantity of land, land which a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, an acre, a certain quantity of land, strip of plough-land; crop”) .

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak?/

Noun

acre f (plural acres)

1. (historical) acre

Further reading

• “acre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• âcre, care, créa, race

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ?cre, neuter nominative singular of ?cer (“sharp”). Doublet of agro.

Adjective

acre (plural acri)

1. sharp, sour
2. harsh

Related terms

Anagrams

• care, cera, c'era, crea, reca

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a?.kre/, [?ä?k??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.kre/, [???k??]

Adjective

?cre

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of ?cer

References

• acre in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acre in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• acre in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

acre f (plural acres)

1. (Jersey) acre

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English acre, from Middle English acre, aker (“field, acre”), from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown, acre”), from Proto-West Germanic *ak(k)r (“field, open land”), from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field, open land”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?é?ros (“field, pasturage”), possibly from *h?e?- (“to drive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?k?r/
• Rhymes: -?r
• Hyphenation: a?cre
• Homophone: eiker

Noun

acre m (definite singular acren, indefinite plural acre or acres, definite plural acrene)

1. an acre (an English unit of land area (symbol: ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters)

References

• “acre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “acre” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “acre” in Store norske leksikon

Anagrams

• race

Old Irish

Noun

acre n

1. Alternative spelling of acrae

Mutation

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?a.k??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?a.k?i/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?a.k?e/
• Homophone: Acre
• Hyphenation: a?cre

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin ?cre, neuter nominative singular of ?cer (“sharp”), from Proto-Indo-European *h??rós (“sharp”). Doublet of agre, agro, ágrio.

Alternative forms

• agre

Adjective

acre m or f (plural acres, comparable)

1. sharp (unpleasantly acrid or tart in taste)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English acre, from Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer, from Proto-West Germanic *ak(k)r, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?é?ros (“field”). Doublet of agro.

Noun

acre m (plural acres)

1. acre (unit of surface area)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.kre/

Adjective

acre

1. feminine/neuter plural nominative/accusative of acru

Scots

Alternative forms

• aker, acker

Etymology

From Middle English aker, from Old English æcer (“field; acre”). Cognate with English acre; see there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ek?r], [?j?k?r]
• (South Scots) IPA^(key): [?ak?r], [??k?r]

Noun

acre (plural acres)

1. An acre (unit of measurement)

Usage notes

The plural is acre when following a numeral.

Verb

acre (third-person singular present acres, present participle acrin, past acrit, past participle acrit)

1. To let grain crops be harvested at a stated sum per acre.
2. To be employed in harvesting grain crops at a stated sum per acre.

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ak?e/, [?a.k?e]

Etymology 1

From Latin ?cer (genitive singular ?cris). Cf. also agrio.

Adjective

acre (plural acres)

1. bitter; acrid; pungent
2. caustic

Derived terms

• acremente

Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English acre. Doublet of agro.

Noun

acre m (plural acres)

1. acre

Anagrams

• arce, caer, cera, crea

Further reading

• “acre” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.