different between metre vs hexameter

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)

1. 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+⁴⁷?₁₂₇ (approximately 39.37) imperial inches.
   • 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.

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)

1. (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)

1. 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)

1. (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)

1. 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)

1. to put, to place

   Synonym: posar

2. 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

1. (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

1. 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)

1. metre, meter (unit of measure, 100 cm)
2. rule, folding rule

English

Alternative forms

• hexametre

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (hexámetros). Equivalent to hexa- +? meter.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: he?xa?me?ter

Noun

hexameter (countable and uncountable, plural hexameters)

1. (countable) a line in a poem having six metrical feet
2. (uncountable) a poetic metre in which each line has six feet

Related terms

• hexametral
• hexametric

Translations

See also

• (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter ^{(Category: en:Prosody)}

Anagrams

• hexametre

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hexameter, from Ancient Greek ????????? (hexámetros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k?sa?.me?.t?r/, /??k?sa?.me?.t?r/
• Hyphenation: he?xa?me?ter

Noun

hexameter m (plural hexameters)

1. hexameter

Latin

Etymology

Derived from hexa- +? meter.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hek?sa.me.ter/, [h?k?s?äm?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek?sa.me.ter/, [???z??m?t??r]

Noun

hexameter m (genitive hexametr?); second declension

1. hexameter

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

References

• hexameter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hexameter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hexameter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette