picometer

See also: Picometer and pico-meter

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Celtic *bekkos

Gaulish *bekkosbor.?

Latin beccus

Old Spanish bico

Spanish picobor.

English pico-

Proto-Indo-European *med-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *médeti

Proto-Germanic *metaną

Proto-West Germanic *metan

Old English metan

Middle English meten

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

Middle English metere

English meter

English picometer

From pico- + meter.

Noun

picometer (plural picometers)

2. US spelling of picometre.

Derived terms

• subpicometer

Translations

10^-12 of a meter

• Arabic: كل زق
• Bulgarian: пикометър m (pikometăr)
• Dutch: picometer (nl) m
• Finnish: pikometri (fi)
• French: picomètre (fr) m
• German: Picometer n
• Hungarian: pikométer (hu)
• Italian: picometro (it) m
• Lao: ປິໂກແມັດ (lo) (pi kō mæt)
• Polish: pikometr (pl) m
• Portuguese: picômetro
• Romanian: picometru m
• Russian: пикоме́тр (ru) m (pikométr)
• Spanish: picómetro (es) m
• Turkish: pikometre

Further reading

• “picometer, picometre”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• “picometer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• emporetic, picometre