centímetro

See also: centimetro and centimetrò

Mecayapan Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish centímetro, from French centimètre.

Noun

centímetro (plural centímetros)

1. centimeter, centimetre
   • 1972, Lázaro Hernández Bautista, Si ticnequis chijli nigaj onoꞌ‎^[1], México, D.F.: el Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Educación Extraescolar en el Medio Indígena, page 6:

     Ihueyacca quipiá de 9 a 10 centímetros.

     Its length ranges from 9 to 10 centimeters.

Portuguese

Etymology

From centi- +‎ -metro (“meter”), calqued from French centimètre.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sẽˈt͡ʃĩ.me.tɾu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sẽˈt͡ʃĩ.me.tɾu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /sẽˈt͡ʃi.me.tɾo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sẽˈti.mɨ.tɾu/

• Rhymes: -imɨtɾu
• Hyphenation: cen‧tí‧me‧tro

Noun

centímetro m (plural centímetros)

1. centimetre

Descendants

• → Guajajára: xenxim

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

From centi- +‎ -metro (“meter”), calqued from French centimètre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θenˈtimetɾo/ [θẽn̪ˈt̪i.me.t̪ɾo] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /senˈtimetɾo/ [sẽn̪ˈt̪i.me.t̪ɾo] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -imetɾo
• Syllabification: cen‧tí‧me‧tro

Noun

centímetro m (plural centímetros)

1. centimetre

Derived terms

• centímetro cúbico

Descendants

• → Mecayapan Nahuatl: centímetro
• → Tagalog: sentimetro

Further reading

• “centímetro”, 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