metra

See also: me·tra, métra, and metrà

English

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek μήτρα (mḗtra, “womb”).

Noun

metra (plural metrae)

1. (medicine) The uterus.

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek μέτρα (métra), plural of μέτρον (métron, “measure”).

Noun

metra (plural metras)

1. (historical) A pocket instrument combining a thermometer, level, plummet, and lens.

Anagrams

• 'mater, METAR, Marte, armet, mater, ramet, tamer, terma, trema, tréma

Faroese

Noun

metra

1. indefinite genitive plural of metur

   skipið liggur á túsund metra dýpi - the ship lies at 1000 metres depth

Ingrian

Alternative forms

• m (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian метр (metr).

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmetrɑ/, [ˈme̞dr]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmetrɑ/, [ˈme̞d̥rɑ]
• Rhymes: -etr, -etrɑ
• Hyphenation: met‧ra

Noun

metra

1. metre
   • 1937, N. S. Popova, translated by A. Kolesova, Arifmetiikan oppikirja alkușkouluja vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 7:

     Toiset pittuusyksiköt ovat siottu metranka sil viisii:

     The other units of length are related to the metre as follows:

Declension

Declension of metra (type 3/kana, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	metra	metrat
genitive	metran	metroin
partitive	metraa	metroja
illative	metraa	metroi
inessive	metraas	metrois
elative	metrast	metroist
allative	metralle	metroille
adessive	metraal	metroil
ablative	metralt	metroilt
translative	metraks	metroiks
essive	metranna, metraan	metroinna, metroin
exessive1)	metrant	metroint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Derived terms

• detsimetra
• kilometra
• kvadrattimetra
• millimetra
• santimetra

 

Latin

Noun

metra

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of metrum

References

• metra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

metra n

1. indefinite plural of metrum
2. definite plural of metrum

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

metra n

1. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of metrum
2. (non-standard since 2012) definite plural of metrum

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmetɾa/ [ˈme.t̪ɾa]
• Rhymes: -etɾa
• Syllabification: me‧tra

Noun

metra f (plural metras)

1. (Venezuela) marble (toy)

Further reading

• “metra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014