acre

Significado (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.

Concepts

acre

campo

bancal

yugada

Synonyms

field

acreage

cultivated field

hectare

plain

rood

a

a

ac

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈeɪ.kə/

Etymology (English)

Inherited from inglés medio: acre

Inherited from inglés antiguo: æcer

Cognate with escocés: acre

Cognate with frisón septentrional: ecir

Cognate with frisón occidental: eker

Cognate with neerlandés: akker

Cognate with alemán: Acker

Cognate with noruego: åker

Cognate with sueco: åker

Cognate with islandés: akur

Cognate with latín: ager

Cognate with griego antiguo: ἀγρός

Cognate with sánscrito: 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”).