acre
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown”), from Proto-West Germanic *akr, 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
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: āʹkə, IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.kə/
- (General American) enPR: āʹkər, IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.kɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪkə(r)
Noun
[edit]acre (plural acres or (UK colloquial) acre)
- 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 metres.
- 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.
- (Chester, historical) An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.[1]
- Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
- (informal, usually in the plural) A wide expanse.
- I like my new house—there’s acres of space!
- (informal, usually in the plural) A large quantity.
- (obsolete) A field.
- (obsolete) The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yd (≈20 m) by 220 yd (≈200 m).
- (obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
Synonyms
[edit]- (approximate): day's math, demath
- (Egyptian): feddan
- (Dutch): morgen
- (French): arpent, arpen, pose
- (German): Morgen
- (India): cawney, cawny, bigha
- (Ireland): Irish acre, collop, plantation acre
- (Roman): juger, jugerum
- (Scottish): Scottish acre, Scots acre, Scotch acre, acair
- (Wales): Welsh acre, cover, cyfair, erw, stang
Hypernyms
[edit]- (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
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- acreable
- acreage
- acre breadth, acre's breadth, acre brede
- acred
- acre-dale
- acre foot, acre-foot
- acreful
- acre-land
- acre length, acre's length, acre lengh
- acreless
- acreman
- acreme
- acre money
- acreocracy
- acre shot
- acre-staff
- all over hell's half acre
- Blackacre
- black acre, black-acre
- broadacre
- broad acres
- church acre
- Cornish acre
- Cunningham acre
- English acre
- Fool's acre
- foreacre
- Fouracre
- geld-acre
- God's acre
- hectacre
- Irish acre
- long-acre
- lug-acre
- multiacre
- nanoacre
- plantation acre
- Scots acre, Scottish acre
- share acre
- starve-acre
- statute acre
- stave-acre
- tenantry acre
- Welsh acre
- Whiteacre
- white acre
- Woodacre
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Translations
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References
[edit]- 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]acre f (plural acres)
Further reading
[edit]- “acre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Latin ācrem. Doublet of agro.
Adjective
[edit]acre (plural acri, superlative acerrimo)
- sharp, sour
- (by extension):
- penetrating (of a smell)
- Synonym: pungente
- shrill (of a sound)
- Synonym: stridente
- penetrating (of a smell)
- harsh, malevolent
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- acre in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
[edit]acre f pl
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈaː.kre/, [ˈäːkrɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.kre/, [ˈäːkre]
Adjective
[edit]ācre
References
[edit]- “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
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]acre
- Alternative form of acorn
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]acre
- Alternative form of aker
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]acre f (plural acres)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English acre. Doublet of åker.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]acre m (definite singular acren, indefinite plural acre or acres, definite plural acrene)
- 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
[edit]- “acre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “acre” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “acre” in Store norske leksikon
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English acre. Doublet of åker.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]acre m (plural acren)
- 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
[edit]- “acre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Irish
[edit]Noun
[edit]acre n
- Alternative spelling of acrae
Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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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
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Latin ācrem. Doublet of agre, agro, and ágrio.
Alternative forms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]acre m or f (plural acres)
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from English acre. Doublet of agro.
Noun
[edit]acre m (plural acres)
Coordinate terms
[edit]- geira (traditional Portuguese equivalent)
Romanian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]acre
Scots
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English aker, from Old English æcer (“field; acre”), from Proto-West Germanic *akr.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Northern Scots) IPA(key): /ˈɑ(ː)kər/
- (Central Scots) IPA(key): /ˈekər/
- (Southern Scots) IPA(key): /ˈjɪ̢kər/
Noun
[edit]acre (plural acres)
Usage notes
[edit]The plural is acre when following a numeral.
Descendants
[edit]Verb
[edit]acre (present participle acrin')
- To let grain crops be harvested at a stated sum per acre.
- To be employed in harvesting grain crops at a stated sum per acre.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “acre, n. v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- Eagle, Andy, editor (2024), “acre”, in The Online Scots Dictionary[2]
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]acre m or f (masculine and feminine plural acres)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from English acre. Doublet of agro.
Noun
[edit]acre m (plural acres)
Further reading
[edit]- “acre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
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- English terms derived from Middle English
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