odómetro

See also: odometro and odômetro

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• odômetro (Brazil)
• hodómetro (Portugal)
• hodômetro (Brazil)

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈdɔ.mɨ.tɾu/ [ɔˈðɔ.mɨ.tɾu]

• Rhymes: -ɔmɨtɾu
• Hyphenation: o‧dó‧me‧tro

Noun

odómetro m (plural odómetros) (European Portuguese spelling)

1. odometer (instrument to measure distance travelled)

Further reading

• “odómetro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁδόμετρον (hodómetron), from ὁδός (hodós, “road, path, way”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈdometɾo/ [oˈð̞o.me.t̪ɾo]
• Rhymes: -ometɾo
• Syllabification: o‧dó‧me‧tro

Noun

odómetro m (plural odómetros)

1. odometer (instrument to measure distance travelled)

   Synonym: cuentakilómetros

2. pedometer, step counter (device that measures the number of steps taken)

   Synonyms: podómetro, cuentapasos

Further reading

• “odómetro”, 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
• “odómetro” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.