commensurate

English

Etymology

From Latin com- (“together, with”) + mēnsūrō (“measure; estimate”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /kəˈmenʃəɹət/, X-SAMPA: /k@"menS@r\@t/
• (US) IPA: /kəˈmenʃəɹət/, X-SAMPA: /k@"menS@r\@t/

Adjective

commensurate (comparative more commensurate, superlative most commensurate)

1. Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.

   If it is essential in our interests to maintain a quasi-permanent position of power on the Asian mainland as against the Chinese then we must be prepared to continue to pay the present cost in Vietnam indefinitely and to meet any escalation on the other side with at least a commensurate escalation of commitment of our own. - Report to the President on Southeast Asia-Vietnam by Senator Mike Mansfield, December 18, 1962

Antonyms

• incommensurate

Translations

proportionate; of a similar measurable standard

• Bulgarian: съизмерим (bg) (sǎizmerim), съразмерен (bg) (sǎrazmeren)
• French: commensurable (fr)
• German: ausgewogen (de), angemessen (de), dementsprechend (de)
• Japanese: 比例した (ja) (ひれいした, hireishita)
• Korean: 비례한 (ko) (比例한, biryehan)
• Latvian: samērojams (lv)

• Macedonian: сразмерен (mk)
• Polish: współmierny (pl) m
• Russian: соразмерный (ru) (sorazmérnyj) , соизмеримый (ru) (soizmerímyj) , соответственный (ru) (sootvétstvennyj) , сопоставимый (ru) (sopostavímyj) 
• Spanish: adecuado (es)

External links

• commensurate in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
• commensurate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• commensurate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• commensurate at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Italian

Verb

commensurate

1. second-person plural present indicative of commensurare
2. second-person plural imperative of commensurare
3. feminine plural form of commensurato