odómetro
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔˈdɔ.mɨ.tɾu/ [ɔˈðɔ.mɨ.tɾu]
- Rhymes: -ɔmɨtɾu
- Hyphenation: o‧dó‧me‧tro
Noun
odómetro m (plural odómetros) (European Portuguese spelling)
- odometer (instrument to measure distance travelled)
Further reading
- “odómetro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὁδόμετρον (hodómetron), from ὁδός (hodós, “road, path, way”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oˈdometɾo/ [oˈð̞o.me.t̪ɾo]
- Rhymes: -ometɾo
- Syllabification: o‧dó‧me‧tro
Noun
odómetro m (plural odómetros)
- odometer (instrument to measure distance travelled)
- Synonym: cuentakilómetros
- pedometer, step counter (device that measures the number of steps taken)
- Synonyms: podómetro, cuentapasos
Further reading
- “odómetro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
- “odómetro” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.