pedometer

pedometer

English

Etymology 1

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, from French pédomètre, from pedi-, Latin combining form for "foot", plus -ometer, from Greek. In French now the word is podomètre, and similar in other Romance languages and in Greek (ποδόμετρο (podómetro)). Surface analysis, pedo- +‎ -meter = pedo- +‎ -ometer.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɪˈdɑmətɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɪˈdɒmətə/

Noun

pedometer (plural pedometers)

1. A device, often electronic, that measures the number of steps taken, and thus estimates the distance walked.

   He thought that buying a pedometer would spur him on to exercise.

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ped-‎ (0 c, 48 e)

Translations

device

Bulgarian: крачкомер m (kračkomer) Catalan: podòmetre m, pedòmetre m Chinese: Mandarin: 計步器／计步器 (zh) (jìbùqì) Czech: krokoměr (cs) m, pedometr m Dutch: stappenteller (nl) m Finnish: askelmittari (fi) French: podomètre (fr) m Galician: podómetro m, contapasos m German: Schrittzähler (de) m Icelandic: skrefamælir m, skrefmælir m, skrefateljari m Italian: pedometro m, contapassi m, passimetro m, podometro (it) m Japanese: 歩数計 (ほうすうけい, hosūkei), 万歩計 (まんぽけい, manpokei), ペドメーター (pedomētā), 計歩器 (けいほき, keihoki) Malay: pedometer Polish: krokomierz (pl) m Portuguese: podómetro, pedómetro m (Portugal); podômetro (pt) m, pedômetro m (Brazil) Russian: шагоме́р (ru) m (šagomér), педо́метр (ru) m (pedómetr) Spanish: podómetro m, odómetro m, cuentapasos m Swedish: stegräknare (sv) c pl

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs, “child”) + -meter.

Noun

pedometer (plural pedometers)

1. (Canada, US) Alternative spelling of paedometer

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “pedometer”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• pedometre