acre

Bedeutung (English)

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
4. (informal) A wide expanse.
5. (informal) A large quantity.
6. (obsolete) A field.
7. (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).
8. (obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.

Konzepte

Acker

Morgen

Acre

Feld

Joch

Liegenschaft

Stück Land <Terrain>

Joch Landes

Juchart

Anbaufläche

Grundstück

Parzelle

Terrain

Synonyms

field

acreage

cultivated field

hectare

plain

rood

a

a

ac

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈeɪ.kə/

Etymologie (English)

Inherited from Mittelenglisch: acre

Inherited from Altenglisch: æcer

Cognate with Schottisch: acre

Cognate with Nordfriesisch: ecir

Cognate with Westfriesisch: eker

Cognate with Niederländisch: akker

Cognate with Deutsch: Acker

Cognate with Norwegisch: åker

Cognate with Schwedisch: åker

Cognate with Isländisch: akur

Cognate with Latein: ager

Cognate with Altgriechisch: ἀγρός

Cognate with Sanskrit: अज्र

In summary

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”).