-meter

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-meter

/-mɪ.tə/ Australia, UK
/-mɪ.təɹ/ Canada, US
/-mə.tə/ New Zealand
/-mɪ.təɾ/ Scotland
/-mɪ.ʈɜː(ɾ)/ India
/-mɪ.ʈəɾ/ India

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French -mètre, a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron).

suffix -meters · -metre · -o-meter · -ometer

morpheme Used to form the names of measuring devices.

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suffix used to form a measuring device

Español	-metro
한국어	계 gye
日本語	計 kei
Português	-metro
Français	-mètre
Deutsch	-meter
Italiano	-metro
Ελληνικά	-μετρο -metro
Română	-metru
Русский	-ме́р -mér, -метр -metr
עברית	מַד־ mád-, ־מטר -méter

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"-meter." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/-meter. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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Chicago

"-meter." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/-meter.

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@misc{meter_2026,
  title = {-meter},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/-meter},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}