acre – English noun declension

English noun forms of acre

Noun: acre
Singularacre
Pluralacres

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:]
  • I like my new house—there’s acres of space!

Nouns inflected like acre

furlong, schnitzel, month, pound, bushel, acre, lion, mile, pair, year, yard,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros
4. Proto-Germanic *akraz
5. Proto-West Germanic *akr
6. Old English æcer
7. Middle English aker
8. English acre
9. From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown”), from Proto-West Germanic *akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”). Doublet of agriculture.
10. 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”). See: Middle English Nouns 'acre', Old English Nouns 'æcer', Dutch Nouns 'akker', German Nouns 'Acker', Swedish Nouns 'åker', Icelandic Nouns 'akur', Latin Nouns 'ager', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἀγρός'.

Verbs referencing "acre"

Norwegian Bokmål Nouns acre, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns acre, Danish Nouns ager, Icelandic Nouns akur, Ancient Greek Nouns ἀγρός, Finnish Nouns eekkeri, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns åker, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns åker, Swedish Nouns åker.