acre

Oznaczający (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.

Synonyms

field

acreage

cultivated field

hectare

plain

rood

a

a

ac

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/ˈeɪ.kə/

Etymologia (English)

Inherited from średnioangielski: acre

Inherited from staroangielski: æcer

Cognate with scots: acre

Cognate with północnofryzyjski: ecir

Cognate with zachodniofryzyjski: eker

Cognate with niderlandzki: akker

Cognate with niemiecki: Acker

Cognate with norweski: åker

Cognate with szwedzki: åker

Cognate with islandzki: akur

Cognate with łaciński: ager

Cognate with starogrecki: ἀγρός

Cognate with sanskryt: 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”).