Etymograph

English

pressuremeter

From pressure + meter.

A compound of pressure + meter

Latin premō ‘to press’

Latin pressūra ‘a pressing’

English pressure

Middle English metere ‘one who measures, measurer’

English meter

Today it means

noun A meter constructed to measure the at-rest horizontal earth pressure.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “pressuremeter”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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