centímetro
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See also: centimetro and centimetrò
Mecayapan Nahuatl
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish centímetro, from French centimètre.
Pronunciation
Noun
centímetro (plural centímetros)
- centimeter, centimetre
- 1972, Lázaro Hernández Bautista, Si ticnequis chijli nigaj onoꞌ, México, D.F.: el Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Educación Extraescolar en el Medio Indígena, page 6:
- Ihueyacca quipiá de 9 a 10 centímetros.
- Its length ranges from 9 to 10 centimeters.
Portuguese
Etymology
From centi- + -metro (“meter”), calqued from French centimètre.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -imɨtɾu
- Hyphenation: cen‧tí‧me‧tro
Noun
centímetro m (plural centímetros)
Spanish
Etymology
From centi- + -metro (“meter”), calqued from French centimètre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θenˈtimetɾo/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /senˈtimetɾo/
- Rhymes: -imetɾo
- Syllabification: cen‧tí‧me‧tro
Noun
centímetro m (plural centímetros)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Mecayapan Nahuatl: centímetro
- → Tagalog: sentimetro
Further reading
- “centímetro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28