pound
English
/paʊnd/
noun
Definitions
- A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
- A unit of mass equal to 12 troy troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of weight when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
- (US) The symbol (octothorpe, hash)
- The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
- Any of various units of currency used in Egypt and Lebanon, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus and Israel.
- Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
- Abbreviation for pound-force, a unit of force/weight. Using this abbreviation to describe pound-force is inaccurate and unscientific.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English pound inherited from Old English pund (weight, a pound, an enclosure) inherited from Proto-Germanic *pundą (weight, pound) derived from Latin pondō (by weight) derived from Proto-Indo-European *pend-, *(s)pend- (pull, spin, stretch).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)pend-
Gloss
pull, spin, stretch
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -er English
- Amsterdam pound English
- appendage English
- compendious English
- expenditure English
- fold English
- gee English
- geepound English
- impending English
- impound English
- impoundable English
- impoundage English
- impounder English
- impoundment English
- keeper English
- kilopound English
- maker English
- master English
- multipound English
- pendant English
- pendent English
- petropound English
- pinfold English
- postpend English
- poundable English
- poundage English
- poundal English
- pounder English
- poundkeeper English
- poundmaker English
- poundmaster English
- prepend English
- propend English
- quarter-pounder English
- shore English
- shorepound English
- suspend English
- ten English
- tenpounder English
- pauna Finnish
- circumpendeo Latin
- compendium Latin
- dependeo Latin
- dē- Latin
- expendere Latin
- expendo Latin
- expendō Latin
- impendeo Latin
- impendere Latin
- pendēre Latin
- ponderare Latin
- pondo Latin
- pondus Latin
- pondō Latin
- praependeo Latin
- propendeo Latin
- pēnsiōnem Latin
- stipendium Latin
- suspendo Latin
- Pfund German
- Pfundskerl German
- pfundig German
- spendieren German
- font Hungarian
- pensionare Italian
- Amsterdams pond Dutch, Flemish
- apothekerspond Dutch, Flemish
- pond Dutch, Flemish
- penchant French
- фунт Russian
- *(s)pend- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)pn̥d-éh₁ye-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)pénd-e-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)pénd-os Proto-Indo-European
- *pend- Proto-Indo-European
- *wes- Proto-Indo-European
- *fintô Proto-Germanic
- *pundą Proto-Germanic
- *spannō Proto-Germanic
- pund Swedish
- ポンド Japanese
- pund Old English
- appenden Middle English
- pinfold Middle English
- pound Middle English
- pund Middle English
- pund Old Norse
- pund Danish
- *pędь Proto-Slavic
- पाउंड Hindi
- पौंड Hindi
- ปอนด์ Thai
- punt Welsh
- pont Middle Dutch
- pfunt Old High German
- pond Afrikaans
- ponndadh Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- punnd Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- pao Vietnamese
- pfunt Middle High German
- Pond Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- 𐍀𐌿𐌽𐌳 Gothic
- punt Old Dutch
- *punta Proto-Finnic
- পাউণ্ড Assamese
- 磅 Chinese
- paundi Swahili
- pauni Swahili
- pund Old Swedish
- 파운드 Korean
- *pendēō Proto-Italic
- ផោន Central Khmer
- fam Hausa
- punthe Unami
- ten
- gee
- -er
- fold
- maker
- shore
- master
- keeper
- propend
- pendent
- suspend
- poundal
- pendant
- pinfold
- pounder
- impound
- prepend
- geepound
- postpend
- poundage
- kilopound
- appendage
- impending
- impounder
- poundable
- shorepound
- multipound
- tenpounder
- impoundage
- poundmaker
- petropound
- poundmaster
- compendious
- impoundable
- expenditure
- impoundment
- poundkeeper
- Amsterdam pound
- quarter-pounder