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English
Etymology
Named after German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894).
Pronunciation
Noun
hertz (plural hertz or hertzes)
- In the International System of Units, the derived unit of frequency; one (period or cycle of any periodic event) per second. Symbol: Hz
- Synonym: cycle per second
Translations
the derived unit of frequency
- Arabic: هِيرْتِز m (hirtiz), هِرْتِز m (hirtiz)
- Hijazi Arabic: هِيرْتْز m (hērtz), هِرْتْز m (hirtz)
- Armenian: հերց (hy) (hercʻ)
- Belarusian: гэрц m (herc)
- Bulgarian: херц m (herc)
- Burmese: ဟတ်ဇ် (hatj)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 赫茲 / 赫兹 (haak1 zi1, hak1 zi1), 赫 (haak1, hak1) (short form)
- Hakka: 赫茲 / 赫兹 (hér-chṳ̀)
- Hokkien: 赫 (hek)
- Mandarin: 赫茲 / 赫兹 (zh) (hèzī), 赫 (zh) (hè) (short form)
- Czech: hertz (cs) m
- Danish: hertz (da) c
- Esperanto: herco
- Finnish: hertsi (fi)
- French: hertz (fr) m
- Georgian: ჰერცი (herci)
- German: Hertz (de) n
- Greek: χερτζ (el) n (chertz)
- Hebrew: הרץ (he)
- Hindi: हर्ट्ज़ (harṭz)
- Indonesian: hertz (id)
- Italian: hertz (it) m
- Japanese: ヘルツ (ja) (herutsu)
- Khmer: ហឺត (km) (həɨt)
- Korean: 헤르츠 (hereucheu)
- Latvian: hercs m
- Macedonian: херц m (herc)
- Malay: hertz
- Persian: هرتز (fa)
- Polish: herc (pl) m
- Portuguese: hertz (pt) m
- Russian: герц (ru) m (gerc)
- Serbo-Croatian: херц m, herc (sh) m
- Spanish: hercio (es) m, hertz m
- Swedish: hertz (sv)
- Thai: เฮิรตซ์ (th) (hêrt), เฮิ้ด (hêrt)
- Ukrainian: герц m (herc)
- Urdu: ہرٹز (harṭz)
- Vietnamese: hertz (vi), héc (vi)
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See also
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
hertz m inan
- hertz (unit of frequency)
Declension
Declension of hertz (hard masculine inanimate)
Further reading
- “hertz”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “hertz”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Etymology
Named after the German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.
Pronunciation
Noun
hertz c (plural indefinite hertz)
- hertz. Symbol: Hz
Derived terms
Further reading
French
Pronunciation
Noun
hertz m (plural hertz)
- hertz
Further reading
Galician
Noun
hertz m (uncountable)
- hertz
- Synonym: hercio
Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
hertz m (invariable)
- (metrology, physics) hertz
Further reading
- hertz in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- Hertz in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- hertz in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- hèrtz in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- hertz in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- hertz in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Named after German physicist Heinrich Rufolf Hertz.
Noun
hertz m (definite singular hertzen, indefinite plural hertz, definite plural hertzane)
- hertz (unit of frequency)
References
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from German Hertz.
Pronunciation
Noun
hertz m (invariable)
- hertz (unit of frequency)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Hertz or French hertz.
Noun
hertz m (plural hertzi)
- hertz
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English hertz.
Noun
hertz m (plural hertz)
- hertz
- Synonym: hercio
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
Swedish
Etymology
Named after German physicist Heinrich Hertz.
Pronunciation
Noun
hertz c
- hertz (singular and plural)