Etymology

hectare

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Today it means: A unit of surface area (symbol ㏊) equal to 100 ares (that is, 10,000 square metres, one hundredth of a square kilometre, or approximately 2.5 acres), used for measuring the areas of geographical features such as land and bodies of water. Full definition →

French hectare ← Ancient Greek ἑκατόν
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromἑκατόν“hundred”
  2. French · borrowed fromhectare
  3. English todayhectare

Borrowed from French hectare, formed from Ancient Greek ἑκατόν (hekatón, “hundred”) + are, equivalent to hect- + are.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekἑκατόν all →

hecato-hecatonicosachoronhecto-

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.