calibre

See also: calibré

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.ɪ.bə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.ə.bɚ/
• (Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.ə.bə(ɹ)/
• Hyphenation: cal‧i‧ber

Noun

calibre (countable and uncountable, plural calibres)

1. (UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.) Alternative form of caliber.

Derived terms

• multicalibre
• subcalibre

Related terms

• calibrate

Anagrams

• caliber

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French calibre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [kəˈli.βɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kəˈli.bɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈli.bɾe]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [kaˈli.βɾe]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

calibre m (plural calibres)

1. caliber

Derived terms

• calibrar

Further reading

• “calibre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَالِب (qālib).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.libʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ibʁ
• Hyphenation: ca‧libre

Noun

calibre m (plural calibres)

1. calibre

   gros calibre ― large calibre, large bore; high calibre

Descendants

Descendants

• → Belarusian: калі́бр (kalíbr)
• → Bulgarian: кали́бър (kalíbăr)
• → Catalan: calibre
• → Czech: kalibr
• → Danish: kaliber
• → Dutch: kaliber
  • → Indonesian: kaliber
• → English: calibre, caliber
• → Galician: calibre
• → German: Kaliber
  • → Estonian: kaliiber
  • → Finnish: kaliiperi (or from Swedish)
  • → Latvian: kalibrs
  • → Lithuanian: kalibras
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin script: kalíbar

    Cyrillic script: кали́бар

  • → Slovene: kaliber
• → Hungarian: kaliber
• → Italian: calibro
• → Norwegian Bokmål: kaliber
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: kaliber
• → Polish: kaliber
• → Portuguese: calibre
• → Romanian: calibru
• → Russian: кали́бр (kalíbr)
  • → Bashkir: калибр (kalibr)
  • → Kazakh: калибр (kalibr)
  • → Ossetian: калибр (kalibr)
  • → Tajik: калибр (kalibr)
  • → Tatar: калибр (qälibr)
  • → Uzbek: калибрли (kalibrli)
• → Sardinian: calabru
• → Slovak: kaliber
• → Spanish: calibre
  • → Tagalog: kalibre
• → Swedish: kaliber
• → Turkish: kalibre
• → Ukrainian: калі́бр (kalíbr)

Verb

calibre

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

Further reading

• “calibre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• ciblera

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈli.bɾi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈli.bɾi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈli.bɾe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈli.bɾɨ/ [kɐˈli.βɾɨ]

• Hyphenation: ca‧li‧bre

Etymology 1

Noun

calibre m (plural calibres)

1. caliber / calibre (dimension)
2. gauge (mathematics, physics)

Etymology 2

Verb

calibre

1. inflection of calibrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “calibre”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “calibre”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈlibɾe/ [kaˈli.β̞ɾe]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -ibɾe
• Syllabification: ca‧li‧bre

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Arabic قَالِب (qālib)bor.

French calibrebor.

Spanish calibre

Borrowed from French calibre. Doublet of gálibo.

Noun

calibre m (plural calibres)

1. calibre
2. calipers
3. jig, gauge (tool)

Derived terms

• calibrar
• compás de calibres

Descendants

• → Tagalog: kalibre

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

calibre

1. inflection of calibrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “calibre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025