acre

Nghĩa (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

Phát âm là (IPA)

/ˈeɪ.kə/

Từ nguyên (English)

Inherited from Tiếng Anh Trung cổ: acre

Inherited from Tiếng Anh cổ: æcer

Cognate with Tiếng Scots: acre

Cognate with Tiếng Frisia Miền Bắc: ecir

Cognate with Tiếng Frisia: eker

Cognate with Tiếng Hà Lan: akker

Cognate with Tiếng Đức: Acker

Cognate with Tiếng Na Uy: åker

Cognate with Tiếng Thụy Điển: åker

Cognate with Tiếng Iceland: akur

Cognate with Tiếng La-tinh: ager

Cognate with Tiếng Hy Lạp cổ: ἀγρός

Cognate with Tiếng Phạn: 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”).