mètre

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛtʁ/

  • Audio (Paris):

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

mètre m (plural mètres)

1. metre/meter

Derived terms

• mètre carré
• mètre cube

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
  • → Aukan: meiti
  • → Caribbean Javanese: mèter
  • → Indonesian: meter
  • → Papiamentu: 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 (mīṟṟaṟ)
• → Maltese: metru
• → Mòcheno: meter
• → Norwegian: meter
• → Persian: متر (metr)
• → Polish: metr
• → Portuguese: metro, metrô (Brazil)
  • → 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. inflection of métrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• remet
• terme