acre

• aker (archaic)
• acer (-er form, chiefly UK)

From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“a field, land, that which is sown, sown land, cultivated land; a definite quantity of land, land which a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, an acre, a certain quantity of land, strip of plough-land; crop”), from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”). Cognate with Scots acre, aker, acker (“acre, field, arable land”), North Frisian ecir (“field, a measure of land”), West Frisian eker (“field”), Dutch akker (“field”), German Acker (“field, acre”), Norwegian åker (“field”) and Swedish åker (“field”), Icelandic akur (“field”), Latin ager (“land, field, acre, countryside”), Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós, “field”), Sanskrit अज्र (ájra, “field, plain”). Related to acorn.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: āʹkə, IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.kə/
• (General American) enPR: āʹkər, IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.kɚ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪkə(ɹ)

acre (plural acres)

1. An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎:

     Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.

2. Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
3. (informal, usually in the plural) A wide expanse.

   I like my new house - there’s acres of space!

4. (informal, usually in the plural) A large quantity.
5. (obsolete) A field.
6. (obsolete) The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yds (≈20 m) by 220 yds (≈200 m).
7. (obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.

• (approximate): day's math, demath
• (Egyptian): feddan
• (Dutch): morgen
• (French): arpent, arpen, pose
• (India): cawney, cawny, bigha
• (Ireland): Irish acre, collop, plantation acre
• (Roman): juger, jugerum
• (Scottish): Scottish acre, Scots acre, Scotch acre, acair
• (Wales): Welsh acre, cover, cyfair, erw, stang

• (100 carucates, notionally) See hundred
• (the area able to be plowed by 8 oxen in a year) See carucate
• (the area able to be plowed by two oxen in a year) See virgate
• (the area able to be plowed by an ox in a year) See oxgang
• (the area able to be plowed by an ox in half a season) See nook
• (the area able to be plowed by an ox in ¼ a season) See fardel
• (10 acres, prob. spurious) acreme

• (¼ acre) See rood
• (¹/₁₆₀ acre) lug, perch, (now chiefly Scottish) fall

• acorn
• Greenacre
• wiseacre

• → Irish: acra

• international acre
• north forty
• US survey acre
• Weights and measures
• Wikipedia article on the acre

• -care, CERA, Care, Cera, Crea, Race, acer, care, e-car, race, race-

Probably from Old Norse akr reenforced by Old English æcer (“a field, land, that which is sown, sown land, cultivated land; a definite quantity of land, land which a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, an acre, a certain quantity of land, strip of plough-land; crop”) .

• IPA^(key): /akʁ/

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acre f (plural acres)

1. (historical) acre

• “acre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• care
• créa
• race

From Latin ācre, neuter nominative singular of ācer (“sharp”). Doublet of agro.

acre (masculine and feminine plural acri)

1. sharp, sour
2. harsh

• acredine
• acremente

• care
• cera
• c'era
• crea
• reca

ācre

1. neuter nominative singular of ācer
2. neuter accusative singular of ācer
3. neuter vocative singular of ācer

• acre in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acre in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• acre in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

acre f (plural acres)

1. (Jersey) acre

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.kɾɨ/
• Hyphenation: a‧cre

From Latin ācre, neuter nominative singular of ācer (“sharp”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱrós (“sharp”).

• agre

acre m or f (plural acres, comparable)

1. sharp (having an intense, acrid flavour)

Borrowed from English acre, from Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”).

acre m (plural acres)

1. acre (unit of surface area)

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.kre/

acre

1. feminine plural nominative of acru
2. feminine plural accusative of acru
3. neuter plural nominative of acru
4. neuter plural accusative of acru

• aker, acker

From Middle English aker, from Old English æcer (“field; acre”). Cognate with English acre; see there for more.

• IPA^(key): [ˈekər], [ˈjɪkər]
• (South Scots) IPA^(key): [ˈakər], [ˈɛkər]

acre (plural acres)

1. An acre (unit of measurement)

The plural is acre when following a numeral.

acre (third-person singular present acres, present participle acrin, past acrit, past participle acrit)

1. To let grain crops be harvested at a stated sum per acre.
2. To be employed in harvesting grain crops at a stated sum per acre.

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

• IPA^(key): /ˈakɾe/

From Latin acer, acre. Cf. also agrio.

acre (plural acres)

1. bitter; acrid
2. caustic

• acremente

• acérrimo
• acritud

Borrowed from English acre. Doublet of agro.

acre m (plural acres)

1. acre

• arce, crea, cera, caer

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