Translation
metre
Word origin
From French metre, coined during the French Revolution for the new unit of length, from Greek metron ('a measure'). The same root gives English metre, metric and every -meter instrument.
- Origin
- French, from Greek
- Root
- metron
- English cognates
- metre, metric, thermometer
Examples
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The table is two metres long.
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He stood only three metres from the door.
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The water there is four metres deep.
is the unit of length only. An underground railway is a metroo, with its own final O on top of the borrowed word, so Parizo has a metroo and a platform edge measured in . Measurements take the accusative: .
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