hectare

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English[edit]

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Borrowed from French hectare, formed from Ancient Greek ἑκατόν (hekatón, hundred) + are.

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hectare (plural hectares)

  1. A unit of surface area (symbol ha) equal to 100 ares (that is, 10,000 square metres, one hundredth of a square kilometre, or approximately 2.5 acres), used for measuring the areas of geographical features such as land and bodies of water.
    • 1997, “Buying a Rural Property”, in Back to Basics, Surry Hills, NSW: Reader's Digest (Australia) Pty Limited, page 10:
      With careful planning almost anyone can turn the dream of owning a small farm or a few hectares of country land into a reality.
    • 2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly[3], volume 188, number 22, page 30:
      Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field. In Paris 22 hectares of roof have been planted, out of a potential total of 80 hectares.

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  2. ^ “Archived copy”, in (please provide the title of the work)[2], accessed 5 December 2010, archived from the original on 2011-01-01

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Dutch[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French hectare. Equivalent to hecto- +‎ are.

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hectare f (plural hectaren or hectares, diminutive hectaretje n)

  1. hectare

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  • Caribbean Javanese: èktar
  • Indonesian: hektare
  • Papiamentu: hèktar

French[edit]

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hectare m (plural hectares)

  1. hectare

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hectare

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

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Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French hectare.

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  • Hyphenation: hec‧ta‧re

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hectare m (plural hectares)

  1. hectare (unit of surface area)

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hectare n

  1. indefinite plural of hectar