acre
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown”), from Proto-West Germanic *akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”).
Cognate with Scots acre, aker, acker (“acre, field, arable land”), North Frisian ecir (“field, a measure of land”), West Frisian eker (“field”), Dutch akker (“field”), German Acker (“field, acre”), Norwegian åker (“field”) and Swedish åker (“field”), Icelandic akur (“field”), Latin ager (“land, field, acre, countryside”), Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós, “field”), Sanskrit अज्र (ájra, “field, plain”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: āʹkə, IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.kə/
- (General American) enPR: āʹkər, IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.kɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪkə(r)
Noun edit
acre (plural acres or (UK colloquial) acre)
- An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[1]:
- Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
- (Chester, historical) An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.[1]
- Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
- (informal, usually in the plural) A wide expanse.
- I like my new house - there’s acres of space!
- (informal, usually in the plural) A large quantity.
- (obsolete) A field.
- (obsolete) The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yd (≈20 m) by 220 yd (≈200 m).
- (obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
Synonyms edit
- (approximate): day's math, demath
- (Egyptian): feddan
- (Dutch): morgen
- (French): arpent, arpen, pose
- (German): Morgen
- (India): cawney, cawny, bigha
- (Ireland): Irish acre, collop, plantation acre
- (Roman): juger, jugerum
- (Scottish): Scottish acre, Scots acre, Scotch acre, acair
- (Wales): Welsh acre, cover, cyfair, erw, stang
Hypernyms edit
- (100 carucates, notionally) See hundred
- (the area able to be plowed by 8 oxen in a year) See carucate
- (the area able to be plowed by two oxen in a year) See virgate
- (the area able to be plowed by an ox in a year) See oxgang
- (the area able to be plowed by an ox in half a season) See nook
- (the area able to be plowed by an ox in 1⁄4 a season) See fardel
- (10 acres, prob. spurious) acreme
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- acreable
- acreage
- acre breadth, acre's breadth, acre brede
- acred
- acre-dale
- acre foot, acre-foot
- acreful
- acre-land
- acre length, acre's length, acre lengh
- acreless
- acreman
- acreme
- acre money
- acreocracy
- acre shot
- acre-staff
- all over hell's half acre
- Blackacre
- black acre, black-acre
- broadacre
- broad acres
- church acre
- Cornish acre
- Cunningham acre
- English acre
- Fool's acre
- foreacre
- Fouracre
- geld-acre
- God's acre
- hectacre
- Irish acre
- long-acre
- lug-acre
- multiacre
- nanoacre
- plantation acre
- Scots acre, Scottish acre
- share acre
- starve-acre
- statute acre
- stave-acre
- tenantry acre
- Welsh acre
- Whiteacre
- white acre
- Woodacre
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Translations edit
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References edit
- Robert Holland, M.R.A.C., A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester, Part I--A to F., English Dialect Society, London, 1884, 3
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Robert Holland, M.R.A.C., A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester, Part I--A to F., English Dialect Society, London, 1884, 2
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Probably from Old Norse akr reenforced by Old English æcer (“a field, land, that which is sown, sown land, cultivated land; a definite quantity of land, land which a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, an acre, a certain quantity of land, strip of plough-land; crop”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
acre f (plural acres)
Further reading edit
- “acre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin ācrem. Doublet of agro.
Adjective edit
acre (plural acri, superlative acerrimo)
- sharp, sour
- (by extension):
- penetrating (of a smell)
- Synonym: pungente
- shrill (of a sound)
- Synonym: stridente
- penetrating (of a smell)
- harsh, malevolent
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- acre in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
acre f pl
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈaː.kre/, [ˈäːkrɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.kre/, [ˈäːkre]
Adjective edit
ācre
References edit
- “acre”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- acre in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “acre”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
acre
- Alternative form of acorn
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
acre
- Alternative form of aker
Norman edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
acre f (plural acres)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English acre. Doublet of åker.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
acre m (definite singular acren, indefinite plural acre or acres, definite plural acrene)
- an acre (an English unit of land area (symbol: ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters)
- 1920, Jonas Lie, Samlede Digterverker IV, page 288:
- han havde kjøbt de 125,000 acres land af et kompani eller rettere en bande af svindlere
- he had bought the 125,000 acres of land from a company or rather a gang of scammers
- 1936, Knut Hamsun, Ringen sluttet I, page 85:
- liten elendig farm, firti acres
- small miserable farm, forty acres
- 1987, Richard Herrmann, Victoria, page 168:
- [glasshuset] dekket et område på 26 acres, som skulle bli over hundre norske mål
- [the glass house] covered an area of 26 acres, which was to be over a hundred Norwegian acres
References edit
- “acre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “acre” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “acre” in Store norske leksikon
Anagrams edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English acre. Doublet of åker.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
acre m (plural acren)
- an acre (an English unit of land area (symbol: ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters)
References edit
- “acre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Irish edit
Noun edit
acre n
- Alternative spelling of acrae
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
acre | unchanged | n-acre |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin ācrem. Doublet of agre, agro, and ágrio.
Alternative forms edit
Adjective edit
acre m or f (plural acres)
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from English acre. Doublet of agro.
Noun edit
acre m (plural acres)
Coordinate terms edit
- geira (traditional Portuguese equivalent)
Romanian edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
acre
Scots edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English aker, from Old English æcer (“field; acre”), from Proto-West Germanic *akr.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
acre (plural acres)
Usage notes edit
The plural is acre when following a numeral.
Descendants edit
Verb edit
acre (present participle acrin')
- To let grain crops be harvested at a stated sum per acre.
- To be employed in harvesting grain crops at a stated sum per acre.
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “acre, n. v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
acre m or f (masculine and feminine plural acres)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from English acre. Doublet of agro.
Noun edit
acre m (plural acres)
Further reading edit
- “acre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014