metre: [14] Greek métron meant ‘measure’: it came ultimately from the Indo-European base *me- ‘measure’, which also produced English measure, immense, etc. English originally acquired it, via Latin metrum and Old French metre, in the sense ‘measured rhythmic pattern of verse’. Then at the end of the 18th century French mètre was designated as the standard measure of length in the new metric system, and English reborrowed it as metre. Meter ‘measuring device’ [19] is probably a nominalization of the element -meter, occurring in such compounds as galvanometer [19], gasometer [18], and pedometer [18], which itself went back via French -mètre or modern Latin -metrum to Greek métron. => commensurate, immense, measure, mete
metre (n.)
chiefly British English spelling of meter (n.); for spelling, see -re.
雙語例句
1. Prices start at ￡13.95 a metre for printed cotton.
印花棉布以每米13.95英鎊的價格起售。
來自柯林斯例句
2. They must each compose a poem in strict alliterative metre.
他們必須每人作一首嚴(yán)格押頭韻的詩。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The average UK coal seam is one metre thick.
英國煤層的平均厚度為1米。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Three attempts on the British 200-metre record also ended in failure.