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metric
Metric comes from New Latin metricus ‘pertaining to the system based on the meter’.
- New Latinc. 1500–1900metricus‘pertaining to the system based on the meter’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentmétrique
- Englishearliest quotation 2000metric
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- New Latinc. 1500–1900metricus‘pertaining to the system based on the meter’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentmétrique
- Englishearliest quotation 2000metric
Earliest quotation: 2000, Lutz Habermann: “As we shall see, these metrics are constructed from…”
Equivalent to metre + -ic
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- ‘to measure’
Ancient Greek μέτρον ‘measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre’
Latin metrum
French mètre ‘metre/meter’
English metre
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- ‘to measure’
month, moon, moral, measure, meal, sunny, dimensional, dimension, moody, immense, mesa, meta, menstrual, commensurate, mensa, firman, moodiness, menses, mete, metis, 62 more
through Ancient Greek μέτρον ‘measure’
parameter, kilometre, asymmetry, centimetre, metrology, metra, 41 more
through New Latin metrum ‘a meter’
Today it means
adj Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / New Latin metricus / metric