acre

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See also: Acre and âcre

English

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Alternative forms

  • aker (archaic)
  • acer (-er form, chiefly UK)

Etymology

From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown”), from Proto-West Germanic *ak(k)r, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”).

Cognate with Scots acre, aker, acker (“acre, field, arable land”), North Frisian ecir (“field, a measure of land”), West Frisian eker (“field”), Dutch akker (“field”), German Acker (“field, acre”), Norwegian åker (“field”) and Swedish åker (“field”), Icelandic akur (“field”), Latin ager (“land, field, acre, countryside”), Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós, “field”), Sanskrit अज्र (ájra, “field, plain”).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -eɪkə(ɹ)

Noun

acre (plural acres)

  1. An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters.
    • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎[1]:
      Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
    1. (Chester, historical) An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.[1]
  2. Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
  3. (informal, usually in the plural) A wide expanse.
    I like my new house - there’s acres of space!
  4. (informal, usually in the plural) A large quantity.
  5. (obsolete) A field.
  6. (obsolete) The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yds (≈20 m) by 220 yds (≈200 m).
  7. (obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.

Synonyms

Hypernyms

  • (100 carucates, notionally) See hundred
  • (the area able to be plowed by 8 oxen in a year) See carucate
  • (the area able to be plowed by two oxen in a year) See virgate
  • (the area able to be plowed by an ox in a year) See oxgang
  • (the area able to be plowed by an ox in half a season) See nook
  • (the area able to be plowed by an ox in 1⁄4 a season) See fardel
  • (10 acres, prob. spurious) acreme

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Terms derived from acre

Descendants

  • → Irish: acra
  • Norwegian Bokmål: acre
  • Malay: ekar

Translations

References

  • Robert Holland, M.R.A.C., A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester, Part I--A to F., English Dialect Society, London, 1884, 3

See also

References

  1. ^ Robert Holland, M.R.A.C., A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester, Part I--A to F., English Dialect Society, London, 1884, 2

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Probably from Old Norse akr reenforced by Old English æcer (“a field, land, that which is sown, sown land, cultivated land; a definite quantity of land, land which a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, an acre, a certain quantity of land, strip of plough-land; crop”) .

Pronunciation

Noun

acre f (plural acres)

  1. (historical) acre

Further reading

Anagrams

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.kre/
  • Rhymes: -akre
  • Hyphenation: à‧cre

Etymology 1

From Latin ācre, neuter nominative singular of ācer (“sharp”). Doublet of agro.

Adjective

acre (plural acri, superlative acerrimo)

  1. sharp, sour
    Synonyms: acido, agro, aspro
    Synonyms: amabile, dolce
  2. (transferred sense):
    1. (of a smell) penetrating
      Synonym: pungente
    2. (of a sound) shrill
      Synonym: stridente
  3. harsh, malevolent
    Synonyms: acido, aspro
    Synonyms: amabile, dolce
Derived terms

References

  • acre in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

acre f pl

  1. plural of acra

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) ācre

  1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of ācer

References

  • “acre”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • acre in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “acre”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

acre

  1. Alternative form of acorn

Etymology 2

Noun

acre

  1. Alternative form of aker

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

acre f (plural acres)

  1. (Jersey) acre

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

From English acre, from Middle English acre, aker (“field, acre”), from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown, acre”), from Proto-West Germanic *ak(k)r (“field, open land; acre”), from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field, open land”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field, pasturage”), possibly from *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”). Doublet of åker.

Pronunciation

Noun

acre m (definite singular acren, indefinite plural acre or acres, definite plural acrene)

  1. an acre (an English unit of land area (symbol: ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters)
    • 1920, Jonas Lie, Samlede Digterverker IV, page 288:
      han havde kjøbt de 125,000 acres land af et kompani eller rettere en bande af svindlere
      he had bought the 125,000 acres of land from a company or rather a gang of scammers
    • 1936, Knut Hamsun, Ringen sluttet I, page 85:
      liten elendig farm, firti acres
      small miserable farm, forty acres
    • 1987, Richard Herrmann, Victoria, page 168:
      [glasshuset] dekket et område på 26 acres, som skulle bli over hundre norske mål
      [the glass house] covered an area of 26 acres, which was to be over a hundred Norwegian acres

References

  • “acre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “acre” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
  • “acre” in Store norske leksikon

Anagrams

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

From English acre, from Middle English acre, aker (“field, acre”), from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown, acre”), from Proto-West Germanic *ak(k)r (“field, open land”), from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field, open land”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field, pasturage”), possibly from *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”). Doublet of åker.

Pronunciation

Noun

acre m (plural acren)

  1. an acre (an English unit of land area (symbol: ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters)

References

Old Irish

Noun

acre n

  1. Alternative spelling of acrae

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
acre
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) 		unchanged n-acre
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

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  • Homophone: Acre
  • Hyphenation: a‧cre

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin ācre, neuter nominative singular of ācer (“sharp”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱrós (“sharp”). Doublet of agre, agro, ágrio.

Alternative forms

Adjective

acre m or f (plural acres)

  1. sharp (unpleasantly acrid or tart in taste)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English acre, from Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer, from Proto-West Germanic *ak(k)r, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”). Doublet of agro.

Noun

acre m (plural acres)

  1. acre (unit of surface area)

Romanian

Pronunciation

Adjective

acre

  1. feminine/neuter plural nominative/accusative of acru

Scots

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English aker, from Old English æcer (“field; acre”), from Proto-West Germanic *ak(k)r.

Pronunciation

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Noun

acre (plural acres)

  1. An acre (unit of measurement).
  2. piece of ground.

Usage notes

The plural is acre when following a numeral.

Verb

acre (third-person singular simple present acres, present participle acrin, simple past acred, past participle acred)

  1. To let grain crops be harvested at a stated sum per acre.
  2. To be employed in harvesting grain crops at a stated sum per acre.

Derived terms

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈakɾe/ [ˈa.kɾe]

Etymology 1

From Latin ācer (genitive singular ācris). Cf. also agrio.

Adjective

acre m or f (masculine and feminine plural acres)

  1. bitter; acrid; pungent
  2. caustic
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English acre. Doublet of agro.

Noun

acre m (plural acres)

  1. acre

Anagrams

Further reading

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