calibre

See also: calibré

English

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.ɪ.bə(ɹ)/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.ə.bɚ/
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.ə.bə(ɹ)/
Hyphenation: cal‧i‧ber

Noun

calibre (countable and uncountable, plural calibres)

(UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.) Alternative form of caliber.

Derived terms

Related terms

calibrate

Anagrams

caliber

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French calibre.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central) [kəˈli.βɾə]
IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kəˈli.bɾə]
IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈli.bɾe]
Audio (Barcelona): (file)

Noun

calibre m (plural calibres)

caliber

Derived terms

calibrar

Further reading

“calibre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَالِب (qālib).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ka.libʁ/
Audio (Switzerland (Valais)): (file)
Audio (France (Toulouse)): (file)
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Audio (France (Lyon)): (file)
Audio (France (Somain)): (file)
Rhymes: -ibʁ
Hyphenation: ca‧libre

Noun

calibre m (plural calibres)

calibre
gros calibre ― large calibre, large bore; high calibre

Descendants

Descendants

→ 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 script: kalíbar
  
  Cyrillic script: 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:
1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2. 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.bɾɨ/ [kɐˈli.βɾɨ]

Hyphenation: ca‧li‧bre

Etymology 1

Noun

calibre m (plural calibres)

caliber / calibre (dimension)
gauge (mathematics, physics)

Etymology 2

Verb

calibre

inflection of calibrar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaˈlibɾe/ [kaˈli.β̞ɾe]
Audio (Venezuela): (file)
Rhymes: -ibɾe
Syllabification: ca‧li‧bre

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French calibre. Doublet of gálibo.

Noun

calibre m (plural calibres)

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Tagalog: kalibre

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

calibre

inflection of calibrar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

“calibre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024