-meter

See also: meter, Meter, and méter

English

Alternative forms

• -metre (Britain, nonstandard)
• -o-meter, -ometer

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”).

Suffix

-meter

1. Used to form the names of measuring devices.

Usage notes

• Whereas the spelling of the unit of length varies between British (metre) and American (meter) English, the spelling of this suffix is -meter in both. -metre is a nonstandard alternative form found in British English.
• Words with the suffix -ometer always have a primary stress on the antepenultimate syllable: barometer, speedometer, tachometer, etc. Words derived from meter (or metre) with a prefix usually have a primary stress on the first syllable: centimeter, millimeter, etc.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -meter

• barometer
• ceilometer
• colorimeter
• densimeter
• densitometer
• dilatometer
• dynamometer
• erythrocytometer
• esthesiometer
• extensometer
• hemacytometer, hemocytometer
• manometer
• microdensitometer
• odometer
• osmometer
• pedometer
• penetrometer
• pluviometer
• potentiometer
• pulsometer
• pyrheliometer
• reflectometer
• respirometer
• rheogoniometer
• saccharimeter
• salimeter
• salinometer
• salometer
• sclerometer
• sensitometer
• solarimeter
• spectrophotometer
• speedometer
• spherometer
• sphygmomanometer
• strainometer
• tachometer
• taximeter
• tellurometer
• tensimeter
• tensiometer
• transmissometer
• turbidimeter
• ultramicrometer
• urinometer
• variometer
• velocimeter
• vinometer
• viscosimeter
• voltammeter
• volumeter
• zymometer

 

Translations

used to form a measuring device

• Asturian: -metru m
• Catalan: -metre (ca) m
• Danish: -meter (da)
• Dutch: -meter
• Finnish: -metri (fi)
• French: -mètre (fr)
• Galician: -metro m
• Georgian: -მეტრი (-meṭri)
• German: -meter (de)
• Hebrew: מַד־ m (mád-), ־מטר (-méter)
• Hungarian: -mérő (hu)
• Irish: -méadar m
• Italian: -metro (it) m
• Japanese: 計 (ja) (kei)
• Korean: 계 (ko) (gye)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: -پێو (-pêw)

  Northern Kurdish: -pîv

• Persian: ـسنج (-sanj)
• Polish: -mierz (pl) m, -metr (pl) m
• Portuguese: -metro (pt) m
• Romanian: -metru n
• Russian: -ме́р m (-mér), -метр m (-metr)
• Spanish: -metro (es) m
• Swedish: -meter (sv)

Anagrams

• -metre, -treme, Emert, metre, remet, retem