Noun: acre
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | acre |
| Plural f | acres |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like acre
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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”). Unit of measurement used only in Normandy and often attested in Norman literature and in texts from this region. See: Old Norse Nouns '
akr', Old English Nouns '
æcer'.
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