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metre
English
Alternative forms
- meter
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?mi?t?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?mi?t??/, [?mi???]
- Hyphenation: me?tre
- Rhymes: -i?t?(r)
Etymology 1
From French mètre, from Ancient Greek ?????? (métron, “measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre”). Doublet of metron.
Noun
metre (plural metres)
- The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. The metre is equal to 39
- 1797, The Monthly magazine and British register, No. 3
- The measures of length above the metre are ten times ... greater than the metre.
- 1873, The Young Englishwoman, April
- A dress length of 8 metres of the best quality costs 58 francs.
- 1928, The Observer, April 15
- The 12-metre yachts ... can be sailed efficiently with four paid hands.
47?127 (approximately 39.37) imperial inches. - 1797, The Monthly magazine and British register, No. 3
Usage notes
- This, rather than meter, is the spelling adopted by both the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and the International Organization for Standardization in their English language texts. However the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, in accordance with the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual, has chosen to use meter.
Synonyms
- m
Derived terms
(Metric scale)
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: mita
- ? Burmese: ???? (mita)
- ? Chinese: ?? (m?t?, m?tú)
- ? Japanese: ???? (m?t?)
- ? Korean: ?? (miteo) (South Korea), ?? (meteo) (North Korea, China)
- ? Maori: mita
- ? Swahili: mita
Translations
See also
- Appendix on SI Units
References
“metre” in the Collins English Dictionary
Further reading
- SI prefixes
- International Bureau of Weights and Measures
Verb
metre (third-person singular simple present metres, present participle metring, simple past and past participle metred)
- (Britain, rare) Alternative spelling of meter
Usage notes
The standard spelling of the verb meaning to measure is meter throughout the English-speaking world. The use of the spelling metre for this sense (outside music and poetry) is possibly a misspelling.
Etymology 2
From Old English, from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek See #Etymology 1
Noun
metre (plural metres) (Britain, Canada)
- The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition.
Translations
Verb
metre (third-person singular simple present metres, present participle metring, simple past and past participle metred)
- (poetry, music) To put into metrical form.
See also
- metronome
- metric
- Wikipedia article: metre (poetry)
Anagrams
- -meter, -treme, Emert, meter, remet, retem
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /?m?.t??/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?m?.t??/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?me.t?e/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French mètre.
Noun
metre m (plural metres)
- metre, meter (unit of measure, 100 cm)
Etymology 2
From Old Occitan metre, from Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mitt?. Compare Occitan metre, French mettre, Spanish meter.
Verb
metre (first-person singular present meto, past participle mes)
- to put, to place
- Synonym: posar
- to set
Conjugation
Related terms
Further reading
- “metre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “metre” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “metre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “metre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan metre, from Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mitt?. Attested from the 12th century.
Pronunciation
Verb
metre
- (transitive) to put, to place
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
- mesa
References
Old French
Etymology
From Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mitt?.
Verb
metre
- to put, to place
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Descendants
- Middle French: mettre, mectre, metre
- French: mettre
- Norman: maette (Guernsey), mettre (Jersey)
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from French mètre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?t??/
Noun
metre (definite accusative metreyi, plural metreler)
- metre, meter (unit of measure, 100 cm)
- rule, folding rule
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actus
English
Etymology
From Latin ?ctus (“a cattle drive; a cattle path; units of length and area”). Doublet of act.
Noun
actus (plural actus or acti)
- (historical units of measure) A former Roman unit of length, equal to 120 Roman feet (about 35.5 m)
- (historical units of measure) A former Roman unit of area, equivalent to a square with sides of 1 actus (about 0.125 ha)
Meronyms
- (units of area): juger, jugerum (2 acti)
References
- "actus, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Anagrams
- scuta
French
Noun
actus f
- plural of actu
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?a?k.tus/, [?ä?kt??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ak.tus/, [??kt?us]
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of ag? (“make, do”).
Participle
?ctus (feminine ?cta, neuter ?ctum); first/second-declension participle
- made, done, having been done.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Etymology 2
From ag? (“do, make, drive”) +? -tus (“suffix forming fourth declension action nouns from verbs”).
Noun
?ctus m (genitive ?ct?s); fourth declension
- act, action, doing, deed
- performance, behavior
- a cattle drive, the act of driving cattle or a cart
- a cattle path or narrow cart track
- (historical units of measure) An actus: a former Roman unit of length equal to 120 Roman feet (about 35.5 m)
- (historical units of measure) An actus: a former Roman unit of area equivalent to a square with sides of 1 actus (about 0.125 ha)
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Meronyms
- (unit of length): p?s (1?120 ?ct?s)
- (unit of area): decempeda (1?144 ?ct?s); clima (1?4 ?ct?s); iugerum (2 ?ct?s); h?r?dium (4 ?ct?s); centuria (400 ?ct?s); saltus (1600 ?ct?s)
Derived terms
- ?ctu?sus
- ?ct?tum
Related terms
- ?cta
Descendants
References
- actus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- actus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- actus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- actus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- actus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- actus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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