acre

Probably from Old Norse akr reenforced by Old English æcer (“a field, land, that which is sown, sown land, cultivated land; a definite quantity of land, land which a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, an acre, a certain quantity of land, strip of plough-land; crop”).


mètre

Haitian Creole: mèt

Borrowings

→ Albanian: metër

→ Arabic: متر (mitr)

→ Aragonese: metro

→ Armenian: մետր (metr)

→ Asturian: metru

→ Belarusian: метр (mjetr)

→ Bengali: মিটার (miṭar)

→ Bulgarian: метър (metǎr)

→ Catalan: metre

→ Crimean Tatar: metr

→ Czech: metr

→ Danish: meter

desctree

→ Dutch: meter
Afrikaans: meter
→ Aukan: meiti
→ Caribbean Javanese: mèter
→ Indonesian: meter
→ Papiamentu: meter

→ Egyptian Arabic: متر (metr)

→ English: meter, metre (see there for further descendants)

→ Estonian: meeter

→ Faroese: metur

→ Finnish: metri

→ Galician: metro

→ Georgian: მეტრი (meṭri)

→ German: Meter

→ Gujarati: મીટર (mīṭar)

→ Hebrew: מטר (méter)

→ Hindi: मीटर (mīṭar)

→ Hungarian: méter

→ Hunsrik: Meter

→ Icelandic: metri

→ Irish: méadar

→ Italian: metro

→ Japanese: メートル (mētoru)

→ Kannada: ಮೀಟರು (mīṭaru)

→ Khmer: ម៉ែត្រ (maet)

→ Lao: ແມັດ (mæt)

→ Latvian: metrs

→ Limburgish: maeter

→ Lithuanian: metras

→ Lü: ᦶᦙᧆ (maed)

→ Macedonian: метар (metar)

→ Malay: meter

→ Malayalam: മീറ്റർ (mīṟṟaṟ)

→ Maltese: metru

→ Mòcheno: meter

→ Norwegian: meter

→ Persian: متر (metr)

→ Polish: metr

→ Portuguese: metro
→ Kadiwéu: meetilo

→ Romanian: metru

→ Russian: метр (metr) (see there for further descendants)

→ Serbo-Croatian: metar / метар

→ Sinhalese: මීටර් (mīṭar)

→ Slovak: meter

→ Slovene: meter

→ Spanish: metro
→ Tagalog: metro

→ Swedish: meter

→ Tatar: meter

→ Telugu: మీటరు (mīṭaru)

→ Thai: เมตร (méet)

→ Turkish: metre

→ Ukrainian: метр (metr)

→ Urdu: میٹر (mīṭar)

→ Uyghur: مېتىر (mëtir)

→ Vietnamese: mét

→ Yiddish: מעטער (meter)

Borrowed from Latin metrum, itself from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron).


once

→ Turkish: ons


pied

Haitian Creole: pye

Inherited from Middle French pied, from Old French pié, from Latin pedem. The -d was added to the spelling in Middle French after the Latin form.
Cognate with Italian piede, Catalan peu, Spanish pie, Portuguese pé, and further with English foot, Lithuanian pėda, Persian پا (pâ) etc.

an old unit of measure equal to 32.5 centimetres


coulomb

From the French physicist Charles-Augustin Coulomb.


litre

→ Arabic: لِتْر (litr)

Egyptian Arabic: لتر (letr)

→ Armenian: լիտր (litr)

→ Asturian: llitru

→ Belarusian: літр (litr)

→ Breton: litr

→ Bulgarian: ли́тър (lítǎr)

→ Catalan: litre

→ Central Dusun: liter

→ Czech: litr

→ Danish: liter

→ Dutch: liter

→ English: litre, liter

→ Esperanto: litro

→ Faroese: litur

→ Finnish: litra

→ Galician: litro

→ German: Liter

→ Greek: λίτρο (lítro)

→ Hebrew: ליטר (liter)

→ Hindi: लीटर (līṭar)

→ Hungarian: liter

→ Icelandic: lítri

→ Irish: lítear

→ Italian: litro

→ Japanese: リットル (rittoru), ㍑ (rittoru)

→ Khmer: លីត្រ (liit)

→ Korean: 리터 (riteo)

Kurdish:

→ Central Kurdish: لتر (litr)

→ Latvian: litrs

→ Lithuanian: litras

→ Macedonian: литар (litar)

→ Norwegian:

Bokmål: liter

Nynorsk: liter

→ Ottoman Turkish: لیتره, لتره (litre)
Turkish: litre
→ Armenian: լիթռա (litʻṙa)

→ Persian: لیتر (litr)

→ Polish: litr

→ Portuguese: litro

→ Romanian: litru

→ Russian: литр (litr)

→ Serbo-Croatian: litar

→ Sicilian: litru

→ Slovak: liter

→ Slovene: liter

→ Spanish: litro

→ Swahili: lita

→ Swedish: liter

→ Tatar: liter

→ Telugu: లీటరు (līṭaru)

→ Thai: ลิตร (lít)

→ Ukrainian: літр (litr)

→ Vietnamese: lít

→ Welsh: litr

Borrowed from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”).


main

→? English: main

→⇒ German: Lamäng

Haitian Creole: men

Louisiana Creole: men

⇒ Mauritian Creole: lame

Inherited from Middle French main, Old French main, mein, man, from Latin manus (“hand”), from Proto-Italic *manus, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én-, derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”), or perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *mon-u- (see the Proto-Italic entry). Compare Spanish mano.


quart

fr-adj

quart (feminine quarte, masculine plural quarts, feminine plural quartes)

quarte (feminine)
quarts (masculine plural)
quartes (feminine plural)


nœud

Inherited from Old French neu, from Latin nōdus, from Proto-Indo-European *gned-, *gnod- (“to bind”). Doublet of knout.

knot (unit of speed, one nautical mile per hour)


quintal

Inherited from Old French quintal, from Medieval Latin quintāle (“various medieval hundredweights”), from Arabic قِنْطَار (qinṭār, “100 rottols”), from Classical Syriac ܩܰܢܛܺܝܪܳܐ (qanṭīrā) and ܩܰܢܛܺܝܢܳܪܳܐ (qanṭīnārā), from Byzantine Greek κεντηνάριον (kentēnárion), from Latin centēnārium (“100 Roman pounds”), from centēnī (“100 things”) + -ārius (“-ary”, forming related adjective). Doublet of centenaire.

der

(historical) quintal, French hundredweight, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 49.95 kg


calorie

→ Romanian: calorie

→ Turkish: kalori

1845, formed from Latin calor + -ie. Cf. also French chaleur.


pouce

Inherited from Old French pouce, pouz, peuce, from Latin pollicem.


chopine

(Canada) a French Canadian term for an imperial pint, equal to one eighth of an Imperial gallon, 20 Imperial ounces, or 0.568 liters


cade

Inherited from Middle French cade, intruded around 1500 from Old Occitan cade, from Latin catanum.

western prickly juniper
western prickly juniper

Juniperus oxycedrus
Juniperus oxycedrus#Translingual

western prickly juniper, cade (Juniperus oxycedrus)


cade

Inherited from Middle French cade, from Latin cadus.

(obsolete, revolutionary France) a cubic metre


demi-tasse

→ English: demitasse

From demi- + tasse, literally “half cup”.

demitasse (“serving of coffee in such a cup”)


brasse

From Latin (tēnsa) bracchia (“(outstretched) arms”).


drachme

→ English: drachme, drachm

→ German: Drachme

Inherited from Old French dragme, from Late Latin dragma, etymologically reconstructed to match Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ, “unit of weight; a handful”).


cuillère à café

fr-noun

cuillère à café f (plural cuillères à café)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-cuillère à café.wav


nautique

Learned borrowing from Latin nauticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ναυτικός (nautikós).


année-lumière

L’année-lumière s’utilise surtout en vulgarisation pour exprimer les distances interstellaires et intergalactiques, car cette unité est facilement accessible par le grand public en raison de sa définition, la distance parcourue par la lumière pendant le temps cité.

The light year is used especially in popular science to express interstellar and intergalactic distances, because the unit is very accessible to the general public thanks to its definition: the distance travelled by light in the given period of time.


vitesse de la lumière

vitesse de la lumière f (usually uncountable, plural vitesses de la lumière)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-vitesse de la lumière.wav

à la vitesse de la lumière

la vitesse de la lumière dans le vide

speed of light (the speed of electromagnetic radiation in a vacuum or in a substance)


milliseconde

millisecond (one one-thousandth of a second)


empan

From Old French espan with change of prefix to em-; borrowed from Frankish *spanna, from Proto-Germanic *spānnõ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to stretch”). Cognate with English span.

der

spand, span (imperial measurement equivalent to nine inches)


arpent

Inherited from Late Latin arepennis (“surface of a field”), from Gaulish *are-penno- (“end, extremity of a field”).

der

1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I

His curiosity and his extravagance came to the point that he sold several arpents of good working land to buy books of chivalry to read.

Sa curiosité et son extravagance arrivèrent à ce point qu’il vendit plusieurs arpents de bonnes terres à labourer pour acheter des livres de chevalerie à lire.


oque

→ Italian: oca

→ English: oka, oke, okka, oke

an oka: any of various units of mass formerly used in Turkey, Greece, and Egypt, all being approximately 1¼ kilograms (2¾ pounds)


chœnix

Le chœnix étoit auſſi la nourriture ordinaire des eſclaves par jour.

1740, Charles Rollin, Histoire Ancienne des Egyptiens, des Carthaginois, des Assyriens, des Babyloniens, des Medes et des Perses, des Macedoniens, des Grecs, page 741:


manoque

époularder

to pull apart the tobacco leaves from the roll to cleanse them

manoquage

manoquer (“to put the tobacco into rolls”)


petite cuillère

fr-noun

petite cuillère f (plural petites cuillères)


siècle-lumière

siècle-lumière f (plural siècles-lumière)


seconde-lumière

seconde-lumière f (plural secondes-lumière)


minute-lumière

minute-lumière f (plural minutes-lumière)