watt
See also: Watt
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named after Scottish engineer James Watt. For the surname, see Watt.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wɒt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) enPR: wät, IPA(key): /wɑt/
- Rhymes: -ɒt
- Homophones: wat, wot; what (Received Pronunciation, wine–whine merger)
Noun
[edit]watt (plural watts)
- In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second.
- Alternative form: W (symbol)
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]derived unit of power
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See also
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Anagrams
[edit]Asturian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]watt m (plural watts)
- watt (derived unit of power)
Synonyms
[edit]Chinese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: wok1
- Yale: wōk
- Cantonese Pinyin: wok7
- Guangdong Romanization: wog1
- Sinological IPA (key): /wɔːk̚⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Classifier
[edit]watt
Czech
[edit]Noun
[edit]watt m inan
- watt (unit of power)
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “watt”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “watt”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]watt m (plural watts, diminutive wattje n)
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /wat/
Audio (Paris): (file) Audio (Switzerland (Valais)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) - Homophone: ouate
Noun
[edit]watt m (plural watts)
Further reading
[edit]- “watt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Galician
[edit]Noun
[edit]watt m (plural watts)
Hungarian
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Etymology
[edit]Orthographic borrowing from English watt, named after Scottish engineer James Watt.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]watt (plural wattok)
- watt (derived unit of power)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | watt | wattok |
| accusative | wattot | wattokat |
| dative | wattnak | wattoknak |
| instrumental | wattal | wattokkal |
| causal-final | wattért | wattokért |
| translative | wattá | wattokká |
| terminative | wattig | wattokig |
| essive-formal | wattként | wattokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | wattban | wattokban |
| superessive | watton | wattokon |
| adessive | wattnál | wattoknál |
| illative | wattba | wattokba |
| sublative | wattra | wattokra |
| allative | watthoz | wattokhoz |
| elative | wattból | wattokból |
| delative | wattról | wattokról |
| ablative | wattól | wattoktól |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
watté | wattoké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
wattéi | wattokéi |
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person sing. | wattom | wattjaim |
| 2nd person sing. | wattod | wattjaid |
| 3rd person sing. | wattja | wattjai |
| 1st person plural | wattunk | wattjaink |
| 2nd person plural | wattotok | wattjaitok |
| 3rd person plural | wattjuk | wattjaik |
Derived terms
[edit]Compound words
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- watt in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
Italian
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Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English watt.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]watt m (invariable)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ watt in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named after the Scottish engineer James Watt.
Noun
[edit]watt m (definite singular watten, indefinite plural watt, definite plural wattene)
Derived terms
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named after the Scottish engineer James Watt.
Noun
[edit]watt m (definite singular watten, indefinite plural watt, definite plural wattane)
- a watt (as above)
Derived terms
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English watt.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]watt m (plural watts)
- watt (derived unit of power)
Further reading
[edit]- “watt”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
- “watt”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
- “watt”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “watt”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]watt m (plural wați)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | watt | wattul | wați | wații |
| genitive-dative | watt | wattului | wați | waților |
| vocative | wattule | waților | ||
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English watt.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]watt m (plural watts)
Usage notes
[edit]According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
[edit]- “watt”, 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
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named after Scottish engineer James Watt; for the surname see Watt.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]watt c
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