Zollstock

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡sɔlˌʃtɔk]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: Zoll‧stock

Etymology 1

18th century, from Zoll (“inch”) +‎ Stock (“stick”). Compare equivalent Dutch duimstok.

Noun

Zollstock m (strong, genitive Zollstocks or Zollstockes, plural Zollstöcke) (especially northern and central Germany; in the south alongside other terms)

  1. folding rule, yardstick, meter stick (strip of hard material, usually foldable, for measuring length, regardless of the measure system used)
    Synonyms: (southern Germany, Austria) Zollstab, Meterstab, (Switzerland) Doppelmeter, Klappmeter, (technical, officialese) Gliedermaßstab
Declension
Declension of Zollstock [masculine, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Zollstock die Zollstöcke
genitive eines des Zollstocks, Zollstockes der Zollstöcke
dative einem dem Zollstock, Zollstocke1 den Zollstöcken
accusative einen den Zollstock die Zollstöcke

1Now rare, see notes.

Hypernyms
Descendants
  • → Hungarian: colstok
  • → Polish: colsztok (Silesia)

See also

Etymology 2

From a word for a tollhouse, from Zoll (“toll, customs”).

Proper noun

Zollstock n (proper noun, genitive Zollstocks or (optionally with an article) Zollstock)

  1. Zollstock (a district of Cologne)
Declension
Declension of Zollstock [sg-only, neuter, toponym]
singular
def. noun
nominative das Zollstock
genitive des Zollstocks, Zollstock1
dative dem Zollstock
accusative das Zollstock

1Optionally with an article.

Derived terms
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