metre

• n. メートル; metre; metre
• n. （メートル）人名; （英）metre

meterの英国綴りから。

metre

metre: [14] Greek métron meant ‘measure’: it came ultimately from the Indo-European base *me- ‘measure’, which also produced English measure, immense, etc. English originally acquired it, via Latin metrum and Old French metre, in the sense ‘measured rhythmic pattern of verse’. Then at the end of the 18th century French mètre was designated as the standard measure of length in the new metric system, and English reborrowed it as metre. Meter ‘measuring device’ [19] is probably a nominalization of the element -meter, occurring in such compounds as galvanometer [19], gasometer [18], and pedometer [18], which itself went back via French -mètre or modern Latin -metrum to Greek métron.
=> commensurate, immense, measure, mete

metre (n.)

chiefly British English spelling of meter (n.); for spelling, see -re.

1. Prices start at ￡13.95 a metre for printed cotton.

プリント綿布は1メートルあたり13.95ポンドで販売されている。

2.They must each compose a poem in strict alliterative metre .

彼らは一人一人で厳格に頭韻を押せた詩を作らなければならない。

3.The average UK coal seam is one metre thick.

英国炭層の平均厚さは1メートルである。

4.Three attempts on the British 200- metre record also ended in failure.

英国200メートル記録への3つの衝撃も失敗に終わった。

5.The 800 metre final is on Monday week.

800 m決勝は来週月曜日に行われる。