pedometer

English

Etymology 1

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, from French pédomètre, from pedi-, Latin combining form for "foot", plus -ometer, from Greek. In French now the word is podomètre, and similar in other Romance languages and in Greek (ποδόμετρο (podómetro)). By surface analysis, pedo- (“foot”) +‎ -meter = pedo- + -ometer.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɪˈdɑmətɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɪˈdɒmətə/

Noun

pedometer (plural pedometers)

1. A device, often electronic, that measures the number of steps taken, and thus estimates the distance walked.

   He thought that buying a pedometer would spur him on to exercise.

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ped-‎ (0 c, 57 e)

Translations

device

• Bulgarian: крачкомер m (kračkomer)
• Catalan: podòmetre m, pedòmetre m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 計步器／计步器 (zh) (jìbùqì)

• Czech: krokoměr (cs) m, pedometr m
• Dutch: stappenteller (nl) m
• Finnish: askelmittari (fi)
• French: podomètre (fr) m
• Galician: podómetro m, contapasos m
• German: Schrittzähler (de) m
• Icelandic: skrefamælir m, skrefmælir m, skrefateljari m
• Italian: pedometro m, contapassi m, passimetro m, podometro (it) m
• Japanese: 歩数計 (ja) (ほうすうけい, hosūkei), 万歩計 (まんぽけい, manpokei), ペドメーター (pedomētā), 計歩器 (けいほき, keihoki)
• Malay: pedometer
• Polish: krokomierz (pl) m
• Portuguese: podómetro, pedómetro m (Portugal); podômetro (pt) m, pedômetro m (Brazil)
• Russian: шагоме́р (ru) m (šagomér), педо́метр (ru) m (pedómetr)
• Spanish: podómetro m, odómetro (es) m, cuentapasos m
• Swedish: stegräknare (sv) c pl

Etymology 2

From pedo- (“child”) +‎ -meter.

Noun

pedometer (plural pedometers)

1. (Canada, US) Alternative spelling of paedometer

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “pedometer”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• pedometre