Schritt

Meaning

1. (masculine,strong) step, footstep (a single instance of walking)
2. (masculine,strong) walk (slow gait of a horse)
3. (masculine,strong) crotch (the area between the human legs close to the genitals or comprising them)
4. (masculine,strong) a pace (any of several obsolete linear measures about as long as a man steps, that is about 70–80 cm)
5. (masculine,strong) any imaginary measure that is likened in its partitioning to the distance traveled by a leg moving forward in its single footsteps
6. (masculine,strong) step, move, stage (the part of a measure in the sense of an action one takes)
7. (abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis,masculine,strong) Ellipsis of Schrittgeschwindigkeit.

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ʃʁɪtʰ]

Etymology

From Middle High German schrit, from Old High German scrit, from Proto-Germanic *skriþiz or *skridiz. Compare *skrīþaną (“to walk, crawl”), whence schreiten. Cognate with Dutch schrede.