metra

See also: métra and metrà

English

Etymology 1

Noun

metra (plural metrae)

1. (medicine) The uterus.

Etymology 2

Ancient Greek [Term?] (“measure”)

Noun

metra (plural metras)

1. (historical) A pocket instrument combining a thermometer, level, plummet, and lens.

Anagrams

• 'mater, METAR, Marte, armet, mater, ramet, tamer, terma, trema, tréma

Faroese

Noun

metra

1. indefinite genitive plural of metur

   skipið liggur á túsund metra dýpi - the ship lies at 1000 metres depth

Latin

Noun

metra

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of metrum

References

• metra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

metra n

1. indefinite plural of metrum
2. definite plural of metrum

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

metra n

1. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of metrum
2. (non-standard since 2012) definite plural of metrum

Spanish

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: me‧tra

Noun

metra f (plural metras)

1. (Venezuela) marble (toy)

Further reading

• “metra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014