mètre

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See also: metre, métré, metré, -metre, and -mètre

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɛtʁ/
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- Homophones: mètrent, mètres, mettre (general), maître, maîtres (except regionally)
(Canada) IPA^(key): /maɛ̯tʁ/
Hyphenation: mètre

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin metrum, itself from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron).

Noun

mètre m (plural mètres)

metre/meter

Derived terms

Related terms

métrique

Descendants

Haitian Creole: mèt

Borrowings

→ Albanian: metër
→ Arabic: متر (mitr)
→ Aragonese: metro
→ Armenian: մետր (metr)
→ Asturian: metru
→ Belarusian: метр (mjetr)
→ Bengali: মিটার (miṭar)
→ Bulgarian: метър (metǎr)
→ Catalan: metre
→ Crimean Tatar: metr
→ Czech: metr
→ Danish: meter
→ Dutch: meter
- Afrikaans: meter
- → Aukan: meiti
- → Caribbean Javanese: mèter
- → Indonesian: meter
- → Papiamentu: meter
→ Egyptian Arabic: متر (metr)
→ English: meter, metre (see there for further descendants)
→ Estonian: meeter
→ Faroese: metur
→ Finnish: metri
→ Galician: metro
→ Georgian: მეტრი (meṭri)
→ German: Meter
→ Gujarati: મીટર (mīṭar)
→ Hebrew: מטר (méter)
→ Hindi: मीटर (mīṭar)
→ Hungarian: méter
→ Hunsrik: Meter
→ Icelandic: metri
→ Irish: méadar
→ Italian: metro
→ Japanese: メートル (mētoru)
→ Kannada: ಮೀಟರು (mīṭaru)
→ Khmer: ម៉ែត្រ (maet)
→ Lao: ແມັດ (mæt)
→ Latvian: metrs
→ Limburgish: maeter
→ Lithuanian: metras
→ Lü: ᦶᦙᧆ (maed)
→ Macedonian: метар (metar)
→ Malay: meter
→ Malayalam: മീറ്റർ (mīṟṟaṟ)
→ Maltese: metru
→ Mòcheno: meter
→ Norwegian: meter
→ Persian: متر (metr)
→ Polish: metr
→ Portuguese: metro, metrô
- → Kadiwéu: meetilo
→ Romanian: metru
→ Russian: метр (metr) (see there for further descendants)
→ Serbo-Croatian: metar / метар
→ Sinhalese: මීටර් (mīṭar)
→ Slovak: meter
→ Slovene: meter
→ Spanish: metro
- → Tagalog: metro
→ Swedish: meter
→ Tatar: meter
→ Telugu: మీటరు (mīṭaru)
→ Thai: เมตร (méet)
→ Turkish: metre
→ Ukrainian: метр (metr)
→ Urdu: میٹر (mīṭar)
→ Uyghur: مېتىر (mëtir)
→ Vietnamese: mét
→ Yiddish: מעטער (meter)

Etymology 2

Verb

mètre

inflection of métrer:
1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

“mètre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

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