calibre
See also: calibré
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkæl.ə.bɚ/
- Hyphenation: cal‧i‧ber
Noun
calibre (countable and uncountable, plural calibres)
- Alternative form of caliber
Usage notes
- More common than caliber in UK, etc
Related terms
- calibrate
Anagrams
- caliber
French
Etymology
From Arabic قَالِب (qālib).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.libʁ/
Audio (file)
Noun
calibre m (plural calibres)
- calibre
- gros calibre ― large calibre, large bore; high calibre
Descendants
Descendants of calibre in other languages
- → Belarusian: калі́бр (kalíbr)
- → Bulgarian: кали́бър (kalíbǎr)
- → Catalan: calibre
- → Czech: kalibr
- → Danish: kaliber
- → Dutch: kaliber
- → Indonesian: kaliber
- → English: calibre, caliber
- → Galician: calibre
- → German: Kaliber
- → Estonian: kaliiber
- → Finnish: kaliiperi (or from Swedish)
- → Latvian: kalibrs
- → Lithuanian: kalibras
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Latin: kalíbar
- Cyrillic: кали́бар
- → Slovene: kaliber
- → Hungarian: kaliber
- → Italian: calibro
- → Norwegian Bokmål: kaliber
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: kaliber
- → Polish: kaliber
- → Portuguese: calibre
- → Romanian: calibru
- → Russian: кали́бр (kalíbr)
- → Bashkir: калибр (kalibr)
- → Kazakh: калибр (kalibr)
- → Ossetian: калибр (kalibr)
- → Tajik: калибр (kalibr)
- → Tatar: калибр (qalibr)
- → Uzbek: калибрли (kalibrli)
- → Sardinian: calabru
- → Slovak: kaliber
- → Spanish: calibre
- → Tagalog: kalibre
- → Swedish: kaliber
- → Turkish: kalibre
- → Ukrainian: калі́бр (kalíbr)
Verb
calibre
- inflection of calibrer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “calibre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- ciblera
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈli.bɾi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈli.bɾe/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈli.bɾ(ɨ)/ [kɐˈli.βɾ(ɨ)]
- Hyphenation: ca‧li‧bre
Noun
calibre m (plural calibres)
- caliber / calibre (dimension)
- gauge (mathematics, physics)
Verb
calibre
- inflection of calibrar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈlibɾe/ [kaˈli.β̞ɾe]
- Rhymes: -ibɾe
- Syllabification: ca‧li‧bre
Etymology 1
From French calibre. Doublet of gálibo
Noun
calibre m (plural calibres)
- calibre
- calipers
- jig, gauge (tool)
Derived terms
- calibrar
Descendants
- → Tagalog: kalibre
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
calibre
- inflection of calibrar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “calibre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014