mètre

See also: metre, métré, metré, -metre, and -mètre

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛtʁ/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /maɛ̯tʁ/
• Homophones: maître, maîtres, mètres, mettre
• Hyphenation: mètre

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin metrum, itself from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron).

Noun

mètre m (plural mètres)

1. metre/meter

Related terms

• métrique

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: mèt

Borrowings

• Albanian: metër
• Arabic: متر‎ (mitr)
• Aragonese: metro
• Armenian: մետր (metr)
• Asturian: metru
• Belarusian: метр (mjetr)
• Bengali: মিটার (miṭar)
• Bulgarian: метър (metǎr)
• Catalan: metre
• Crimean Tatar: metr
• Czech: metr
• Danish: meter
• Dutch: meter
  • Afrikaans: meter
  • → Indonesian: meter
• Egyptian Arabic: متر‎ (metr)
• English: meter, metre (see there for further descendants)
• Estonian: meeter
• Faroese: metur
• Finnish: metri
• Galician: metro
• Georgian: მეტრი (meṭri)
• German: Meter
• Gujarati: મીટર (mīṭar)
• Hebrew: מטר‎ (méter)
• Hindi: मीटर (mīṭar)
• Hungarian: méter
• Hunsrik: Meter
• Icelandic: metri
• Irish: méadar
• Italian: metro
• Japanese: メートル (mētoru)
• Kannada: ಮೀಟರು (mīṭaru)
• Khmer: ម៉ែត្រ (maet)
• Lao: ແມັດ (mæt)
• Latvian: metrs
• Limburgish: maeter
• Lithuanian: metras
• Lü: ᦶᦙᧆ (maed)
• Macedonian: метар (metar)
• Malay: meter
• Malayalam: മീറ്റർ (mīṟṟar)
• Maltese: metru
• Mòcheno: meter
• Norwegian: meter
• Persian: متر‎ (metr)
• Polish: metr
• Portuguese: metro, metrô
  • → Kadiwéu: meetilo
• Romanian: metru
• Russian: метр (metr) (see there for further descendants)
• Serbo-Croatian: metar / метар
• Sinhalese: මීටර් (mīṭar)
• Slovak: meter
• Slovene: meter
• Spanish: metro
  • → Tagalog: metro
• Swedish: meter
• Tatar: meter
• Telugu: మీటరు (mīṭaru)
• Thai: เมตร (méet)
• Turkish: metre
• Ukrainian: метр (metr)
• Urdu: میٹر‎ (mīṭar)
• Uyghur: مېتىر‎ (mëtir)
• Vietnamese: mét
• Yiddish: מעטער‎ (meter)

Etymology 2

Verb

mètre

1. first-person singular present indicative of métrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of métrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of métrer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of métrer
5. second-person singular imperative of métrer

Further reading

• “mètre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• remet
• terme