The story
- New Latin · derived frommetricus“pertaining to the system based on the meter”
- French · derived frommétrique
- English todaymetric
From French métrique (1864), from New Latin metricus (“pertaining to the system based on the meter”), from metrum (“a meter”); see meter. By surface analysis, metre + -ic.
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.