acre

Значение (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

Произносится как (IPA)

/ˈeɪ.kə/

Этимология (English)

Inherited from среднеанглийский: acre

Inherited from староанглийский: æcer

Cognate with шотландский: acre

Cognate with северный фризский: ecir

Cognate with западнофризский: eker

Cognate with нидерландский: akker

Cognate with немецкий: Acker

Cognate with норвежский: åker

Cognate with шведский: åker

Cognate with исландский: akur

Cognate with латинский: ager

Cognate with древнегреческий: ἀγρός

Cognate with санскрит: 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”).