pedometer

English

Etymology

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)).

Noun

pedometer (plural pedometers)

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

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Translations

device

Catalan: podòmetre m, pedòmetre m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 計步器 (zh), 计步器 (zh) (jìbùqì)
Czech: krokoměr 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
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

Anagrams

pedometre