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/mɛtʁ/
Translation
metre, tape measure
Word origin
From Ancient Greek metron ('measure'), through Latin metrum. French adopted it in the 1790s as the name of the new revolutionary unit of length, and the rest of the world took the word from French.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- metron
- English cognates
- metre, metric, diameter
Grammar
Examples
- .
The swimming pool is twenty-five metres long.
-vingts.
He is one metre eighty tall.
- , largeur .
Pass me the tape measure, I want to check the width of the door.
'.
The shop is a hundred metres from here.
au .
This fabric is sold by the metre.
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