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From French mètre, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre”). Doublet of meter, metron, and mether.
metre (plural metres)
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“metre”, in Collins English Dictionary.
metre (third-person singular simple present metres, present participle metring, simple past and past participle metred)
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.
From Old English, from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre”).
metre (countable and uncountable, plural metres)
metre (third-person singular simple present metres, present participle metring, simple past and past participle metred)
metre m (plural metres)
Inherited from Old Catalan metre, from Latin mittere. Compare Occitan metre, French mettre, Spanish meter.
metre (first-person singular present meto, first-person singular preterite metí, past participle mes); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencian) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/
infinitive | metre | ||||||
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gerund | metent | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | mes | mesa | |||||
plural | mesos | meses | |||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
present | meto | mets | met | metem | meteu | meten | |
imperfect | metia | meties | metia | metíem | metíeu | metien | |
future | metré | metràs | metrà | metrem | metreu | metran | |
preterite | metí | meteres | meté | metérem | metéreu | meteren | |
conditional | metria | metries | metria | metríem | metríeu | metrien | |
subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
present | meti | metis | meti | metem | meteu | metin | |
imperfect | metés | metessis | metés | metéssim | metéssiu | metessin | |
imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
affirmative | — | met | meti | metem | meteu | metin | |
negative (no) | — | no metis | no meti | no metem | no meteu | no metin |
From Old Occitan metre, from Latin mittere, present active infinitive of mittō. Attested from the 12th century.
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metre
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.
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | metre | avoir mis | |||||
gerund | en metant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
present participle | metant | ||||||
past participle | mis | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | met | mez | met | metons | metez | metent |
imperfect | metoie, meteie | metoies, meteies | metoit, meteit | metiiens, metiens | metiiez, metiez | metoient, meteient | |
preterite | mis | meṣis | mist | meṣimes | meṣistes | misdrent | |
future | metrai | metras | metra | metrons | metroiz, metreiz, metrez | metront | |
conditional | metroie, metreie | metroies, metreies | metroit, metreit | metriiens, metriens | metriiez, metriez | metroient, metreient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | mete | metes | mete | metons | metez | metent |
imperfect | meṣisse | meṣisses | meṣist | meṣissons, meṣissiens | meṣissoiz, meṣissez, meṣissiez | meṣissent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | met | — | metons | metez | — |
From Ottoman Turkish متره (metre), from French mètre.