finger

Sranan Tongo: finga

PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English fynger, finger, from Old English finger (“finger”), from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (“finger”), from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós, from *pénkʷe (“five”). Compare West Frisian finger, Low German/German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish finger; also Old Armenian հինգեր-որդ (hinger-ord, “fifth”). More at five.

sormi

something similar in function to a finger

a piece of steel three fingers thick

1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:

(units of measure) Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly

(historical) Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot (about 1.9 cm).

digit

(historical) A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).

(historical) Synonym of digit: ¹⁄₁₂ the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.

digit

Gimme three fingers of bourbon.

(originally US) An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.


寸

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (寸):
* → Japanese: 寸(すん) (sun)
* → Korean: 촌(寸) (chon)
* → Vietnamese: thốn (寸)

Old Uyghur: tswn (tsun)

/t͡sʰu̯ən⁵¹/

/t͡sʰouŋ²¹³/

/t͡sʰu̯ən⁵¹/

/t͡sʰouŋ²¹³/

Characters in the same phonetic series (寸) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Shuowen considered it an ideogram (指事) – a position on the forearm where the pulse can be palpated by compressing the radial artery. It is called 寸口 in modern Chinese, and the meaning of a unit of measurement is derived from the distance between the wrist and this position. Compare 又, 手, 九, 爪.
However, it may be an abbreviated form of 尊 (zūn), borrowed to mean a unit of measurement (see: 李轶.先秦度量单位"尺""寸"用字考[J].云南师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版), 2010, 42(5).DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1000-5110.2010.05.017.)

Han etyl

(units of measure) A cun or Chinese inch, a traditional unit of length of about 3 cm.

(Hong Kong) Legally defined as the tsun of 3.71475 cm.


bath

barf (non-rhotic, trap–bath split, th-fronting)

Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

(historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).


cor

cors (plural)
kor (alternative)
core (alternative)

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr).

bor+

(historical units of measure) Any of various former units of volume, particularly:

A Hebrew unit of liquid volume, about equal to 230 L or 60 gallons.

Synonym of homer: approximately the same volume as a dry measure.

homer

A roughly equivalent Phoenician unit of volume.


log

logs (plural)
logg (alternative obsolete)
logge (alternative obsolete)

...and one log of oil...

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 14:10:

In the Hebrew system the log (Lev. xiv. 10) corresponds to the mina. Since the Hellenistic writers equate the log with the Græco-Roman sextarius, whatever these writers say on the relation of the sextarius to other measures applies also to the relation of these measures to the log. The log and the sextarius, however, are not equal in capacity. The sextarius is estimated at .547 liter, while there is no reason to regard the log as larger than the Babylonian mina, especially as other references of the Greek metrologists support the assumption that the log was equal to the mina. The fact that in the Old Testament the log is mentioned only as a fluid measure may be merely accidental, for the dry measures, which are distinguished in all other cases from the liquid measures, also have the log as their unit. The corresponding dry measure may, however, have been known under a different name.

1902, Jewish Encyclopedia, s.v. "Weights and Measures"

(historical units of measure) A Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about ¹⁄₃ liter).


batman

Batman (unit)
Edward Ardizzone
Imperial War Museum

From Ottoman Turkish بطمان (batman). Cognate with Chagatai [script needed] (bātmān).

Euery bateman [in Bagdad] maketh 7. pound and 5. ounces English waight.

1583 July 20, J. Newbery, letter in Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, p. 209

A Batman is fiue and fiftie pound weight English.

1614, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimage, page 544:

Their weights [in Khiva] are the great batman equal to 18 lb. russian, and the lesser batman 9¼.

1753, G. Thompson & al. in Jonas Hanway's Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea, Vol. I, p. 351

At Smyrna, the cantaro, or kintal, contains 45 okes, or 100 rottoli. The batman is 6 okes, or 2400 drachms; and the oke is 400 drachms, and the rottolo = 180 drachms. The cantaro of 45 okes weighs 123 lbs. 4 oz. avoirdupois; and, therefore, the oke is = 2 lbs. 11 oz. 13 drs. avoirdupois.

1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia, Vol. XXX, s.v. "Rottolo"

6107. Turkish Weights. The Turkish Chequi is 11⅓ ounces avoirdupois...
1 Batman = 6 Okas
1 Oka = 4 Chequi

1900, William B. Dick, Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes, page 530:

(historical units of measure) A Turkish unit of weight varying by location, time, and item from 2–8 okas (about 2.5–10 kg).


cab

[…] in the famine of Samaria […] the fourth part of a cab of pigeon's dung was sold for five pieces of silver […]

1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.3:

(historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a liquid measure.


omer

omers (plural)
gomer (alternative)
Omer (alternative)

From Biblical Hebrew עומר / עֹמֶר ('ómer, “sheaf”).

...that Omer which was every mans daily portion of Manna, is computed to have bin more then might have well suffic'd the heartiest feeder thrice as many meals.

And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

(historical units of measure) A former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts.


pes

la-noun

pēs m (genitive pedis); third declension

pēs (canonical masculine)
pedis (genitive)
pēs (nominative singular)
pedēs (nominative plural)
pedis (genitive singular)
pedum (genitive plural)
pedī (dative singular)
pedibus (dative plural)
pedem (accusative singular)
pedēs (accusative plural)
pede (ablative singular)
pedibus (ablative plural)
pēs (singular vocative)
pedēs (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

⇒ Aromanian: pezã

Romanian: piez ⇒ piază

Dalmatian:

pi

Italo-Romance

Corsican: pede

Gallurese: pedi

Italian: piede

→ Esperanto: piedo

→ Ladino: piede (regional)

Neapolitan: pede

Sassarese: pedi

Sicilian: pedi, peri

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: pît

Romansch: pe

Padanian:

Istriot: peîe, pèie

Gallo-Italic:

Ligurian: pê

Piedmontese: pe

Romagnol: pè, pid (Rimini, San Marino)

Venetan: piè

Northern Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: pièd

Norman: pid, pyid

desctree

Old French: pié, pé (Anglo-Norman), *pied, *piet
Middle French: pied
French: pied
Walloon: pî

Southern Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: peu

Old Occitan: pe
Occitan: pè

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: pie

Extremaduran: pie

Leonese: pía

Mirandese: pie

Old Navarro-Aragonese: pie, pied

Aragonese: piet

Old Galician-Portuguese: pee
Galician: pé
Portuguese: pé

Old Spanish: pie
Ladino: pye
Spanish: pie

Sardinian:

Campidanese: pei

Logudorese: pe

Nuorese: pede

Derived forms:

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pedicāre

Catalan: petjar

Borrowings:

→ English: pes

→ Ido: pedo

→ Interlingua: pede

→⇒ German: stante pede

From Proto-Italic *pets, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (compare Sanskrit पद् (pád), Ancient Greek πούς (poús) and Old English fōt, whence English foot).

(units of measure) any of various units of length notionally based on the adult human foot, especially (historical) the Roman foot.


말

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 말〮 (Yale: mál).

ko-etym-native

(units of measure) a unit of volume equivalent to about 18 L or 10 되 (doe)


clima

la-noun

clima n (genitive climatis); third declension

climatis (genitive)
clima (nominative singular)
climata (nominative plural)
climatis (genitive singular)
climatum (genitive plural)
climatī (dative singular)
climatibus (dative plural)
clima (accusative singular)
climata (accusative plural)
climate (ablative singular)
climatibus (ablative plural)
clima (singular vocative)
climata (plural vocative)

Spanish: clima

From Ancient Greek κλῐ́μᾰ (klĭ́mă, “region, zone of latitude”, originally “slope”), from κλῐ́νω (klĭ́nō, “I slope, incline”).

der

(historical units of measure) A Roman unit of area equivalent to a square with sides of 60 Roman feet.


돈

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 돈〯 (Yale: twǒn).
The etymology beyond Middle Korean is unknown. Native etymologies have been hypothesized, such as an 隱 (*-n) nominalization from 되다 (doeda, “to measure in containers”). Others have speculated a pre-Sino-Korean or nativised Chinese etymon, perhaps from a phrase involving 刀 (OC *taːw, “knife”) such as 刀銀 (OC *taːw ŋrɯn, “knife silver”), Chinese knife money being the first form of coinage in Korea, or alternately from 錢 (OC *ʔslenʔ, *zlen, “money”).
There is a pervasive but spurious folk etymology connecting it to 돌— (dol-, “to spin around, to circulate”), hence "that which is circulated".

金

used to form compounds related with money

그 반지는 3돈 정도 한다.

(units of measure) a don, a Korean unit of weight equivalent to about 4 g


core

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

(historical units of measure) Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.


våg

våg f (definite singular våga, indefinite plural våger, definite plural vågene)

våga (definite singular)
våger (indefinite plural)
vågene (definite plural)

(measure unit): Russenorsk: våga

From Old Norse vág f, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales, weight”).

(historical, units of measure) an older unit of weight used to measure heavier goods, around 18 kg.


rattle

From Arabic رَطْل (raṭl), variant of classical رِطْل (riṭl), ultimately from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra). Doublet of liter.

(historical units of measure) Alternative form of rottol: a former Middle Eastern and North African unit of dry weight usually equal to 1–5 lb (0.5–2.5 kg).


saltus

la-noun

saltus m (genitive saltūs); fourth declension

saltūs (genitive)
saltus (nominative singular)
saltūs (nominative plural)
saltūs (genitive singular)
saltuum (genitive plural)
saltuī (dative singular)
saltibus (dative plural)
saltum (accusative singular)
saltūs (accusative plural)
saltū (ablative singular)
saltibus (ablative plural)
saltus (singular vocative)
saltūs (plural vocative)

Italian: salto

Asturian: sotu

Fala: soitu

Galician: souto

Portuguese: souto, soito, salto

Sardinian: sartu

Spanish: soto

Uncertain. Perhaps related to silva. Compare also Ancient Greek άλσος (álsos, “sacred grove, copse”), from Pre-Greek, which would point to substrate origin if related.

cog

(historical units of measure) A saltus, a large unit of area equal to four centuriae (approximately 500 acres or 200 hectares), used especially in reference to tracts of public land.


litro

Borrowed from French litre, from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”). Doublet of arrelde.


sr

(SI units) steradian (for measuring solid angles)


homer

From Hebrew חומר / חֹמֶר (khómer, “clay, heap, large unit of volume”).

he-m

The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 45:11:

Head up! For every newbegotten thou shalt gather thy homer of ripe wheat.

(historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6+¹⁄₂ US bushels.

(historical units of measure) Synonym of cor: approximately the same volume as a liquid measure.


hin

From Middle English hin, from Latin hin, from Hebrew הִין, from Egyptian h:n-nw-w-W22 (hnw, “jar, unit of liquid volume”).

der

Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement

500 shekels of cassia — all according to the sanctuary shekel — and a hin of olive oil.

1973, Bible (New International Version), Exodus 30:24

(historical units of measure) A former Hebrew liquid measure of volume (about 3.8 L).

The hin for liquids was subdivided dimidially down to ¹⁄₃₂ = 1 ro.

1997, Helaine Selin, Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Westen Cultures:

(historical units of measure) An Ancient Egyptian liquid measure of volume (about 0.48 L).


stokes

stokes (plural)
stokes (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
stokesul (accusative definite nominative singular)
stokes (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
stokesi (accusative definite nominative plural)
stokes (indefinite singular)
stokesului (definite singular)
stokes (indefinite plural)
stokeslor (definite plural)
stokesule (singular vocative)
stokeslor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French stokes or English stokes.


kor

Solomon responded by committing 20,000 kors of pure oil and 20,000 kors of wheat in annual payments. A kor of oil is an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid of about 58 gallons. A kor of wheat is equal to 6.25 bushels.

2002, Don Victor Bovey, In Touch With Eternity, page 161:


stade

From Spanish estado, from Latin status (“standing”), in reference to it being roughly the height of a grown man. Doublet of estate, state, status, and estado.

doublet

(units of measure, obsolete) Synonym of estadio: a traditional Spanish unit of measure equivalent to about 1.67 m.


plethron

(historical units of measure) A former Greek unit of length equal to 100 Greek feet (podes).


juger

Borrowed from Latin iūger, variant of iūgerum.

(historical units of measure) A Roman unit of area, equivalent to 2 acti or 28,800 square feet (about ¼ ha).


actus

From Latin āctus (“a cattle drive; a cattle path; units of length and area”). Doublet of act.

der

(historical units of measure) A former Roman unit of length, equal to 120 Roman feet (about 35.5 m)

(historical units of measure) A former Roman unit of area, equivalent to a square with sides of 1 actus (about 0.125 ha)


actus

la-noun

āctus m (genitive āctūs); fourth declension

āctus (canonical masculine)
āctūs (genitive)
āctus (nominative singular)
āctūs (nominative plural)
āctūs (genitive singular)
āctuum (genitive plural)
āctuī (dative singular)
āctibus (dative plural)
āctum (accusative singular)
āctūs (accusative plural)
āctū (ablative singular)
āctibus (ablative plural)
āctus (singular vocative)
āctūs (plural vocative)

→ Aragonese: acto

→ Asturian: actu

→ Catalan: acte

Corsican: attu

→ French: acte

→ Romanian: act

Friulian: at

→ Galician: acto

desctree

→ German: Akt
→ Norwegian Bokmål: akt
→ Polish: akt (semantic loan)

→ Middle Irish: acht

Irish: acht

Manx: aght

Scottish Gaelic: achd

Italian: atto

Neapolitan: atto

→ Norwegian Bokmål: akt

→ Occitan: acte

→ Old French: acte

→ English: act

Old Galician-Portuguese: auto

Portuguese: auto

Galician: auto

→ Portuguese: ato

→ Romansch: act

→ Russian: акт m (akt)

Sardinian: atu, attu

Sicilian: attu

Spanish: auto

→ Spanish: acto

→ Swedish: akt

Venetan: ato

From agō (“I do, make, drive”) + -tus (suffix forming fourth declension action nouns from verbs).

suffix

(historical units of measure) actus (a former Roman unit of length equal to 120 Roman feet (about 35.5 m))

(historical units of measure) actus (a former Roman unit of area equivalent to a square with sides of 1 actus (about 0.125 ha))


leng

(units of measure) A traditional Malay unit of volume, equivalent to an imperial pint.


stenkast

stenkast (indefinite nominative singular)
stenkasts (genitive indefinite singular)
stenkastet (definite nominative singular)
stenkastets (definite genitive singular)
stenkast (indefinite nominative plural)
stenkasts (genitive indefinite plural)
stenkasten (definite nominative plural)
stenkastens (definite genitive plural)

(units of measure, archaic) 50 steg; 40 to 50 metre


되

First attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean 되 (Yale: twoy). Alteration of 두 (斗, du).

ko-etym-native

(units of measure) A unit of volume equivalent to about 1.8 L.


miglio

Back-formation from the plural miglia, from Latin mīlia n pl (“thousand”) in the phrase mīlia passuum (“thousand paces”). Doublet of mille.

(units of measure) the Italian mile, a traditional unit of length derived from the Roman mile

(units of measure) the international mile and other "mile" unit


metro cubo

(units of measure) cubic meter, cubic metre


metro quadro

(units of measure) square meter, square metre


metro quadrato

it-noun

metro quadrato m (plural metri quadrati)


efa

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew אֵיפָה (eifá).


sukat

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sukat. Compare Tagalog sukat.

(units of measure) A traditional Malay unit of volume, equivalent to four imperial gallons.


ephah

ephahs (plural)
epha (alternative)
ephi (alternative)

From Hebrew אֵיפָה (eifá), from Egyptian jpt (“oipe, a dry measure of volume about 19.2 liters”). Doublet of oipe.

der

Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 45:10–11:

(historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of dry volume (about 23 L).


epha

(historical units of measure) Alternative spelling of ephah.


rotolo

rotolos (plural)
rotoli (plural)
rottolo (alternative)

From Italian rotolo (“roll; rottol”). As a roll, from Late Latin rotulus (“little wheel”), from Latin rota (“wheel, rolling thing”) + -ulus (“-ule”, forming diminutives). As a unit of weight, from Arabic رُطْل (ruṭl), variant of classical رِطْل (riṭl), ultimately from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra).

(historical units of measure) Alternative form of rottol: a former Middle Eastern and North African unit of dry weight, usually between 1–5 pounds (.5–2.5 kg).


rotolo

From Arabic رُطْل (ruṭl), variant of classical رِطْل (riṭl), ultimately from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra).


centuria

la-noun

centuria f (genitive centuriae); first declension

centuriae (genitive)
centuria (nominative singular)
centuriae (nominative plural)
centuriae (genitive singular)
centuriārum (genitive plural)
centuriae (dative singular)
centuriīs (dative plural)
centuriam (accusative singular)
centuriās (accusative plural)
centuriā (ablative singular)
centuriīs (ablative plural)
centuria (singular vocative)
centuriae (plural vocative)

→ Albanian: centurie

→ Asturian: centuria

→ Catalan: centúria

→ Galician: centuria

→ German: Zenturie

→ Italian: centuria

→ Old French: centurie

French: centurie

→ Middle English: centurie

English: century

Scots: centurie

→ Polish: centuria

→ Portuguese: centúria

→ Romanian: centurie

→ Russian: центу́рия (centúrija)

→ Spanish: centuria

*centu-viria, from centum (“one hundred”) + vir (“man”) + -ia.

af

(historical units of measure) a unit of area, equal to 100 heredia or 200 iugera (approximately 125 acres or 50 hectares)

contubernium (1⁄10 centuria after 107 BC)


איפה

he-noun

אֵיפָה • (efá) f

→ English: ephah

From Egyptian jpt (“oipe, a dry measure of volume about 19.2 liters”); compare Sahidic Coptic ⲟⲉⲓⲡⲉ (oeipe).

(historical units of measure) An ephah, a former Hebrew unit of dry volume (about 23 L).


pertica

la-noun

pertica f (genitive perticae); first declension

perticae (genitive)
pertica (nominative singular)
perticae (nominative plural)
perticae (genitive singular)
perticārum (genitive plural)
perticae (dative singular)
perticīs (dative plural)
perticam (accusative singular)
perticās (accusative plural)
perticā (ablative singular)
perticīs (ablative plural)
pertica (singular vocative)
perticae (plural vocative)

Italo-Romance:

Italian: pertica, perchia (Tuscan)

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: perdga

Ligurian: pèrtega

Lombard: pèrtega, pertia

Piedmontese: pèrtia, pèrcia, perga

Northern Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: perche, percha (Valdôtain)

French: perche

Norman: pèrque

Southern Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: perxa

→ Spanish: percha

Occitan: pèrga

Gascon: pèrja

Nord-Occitan: perja

Provençal: pertega

Vivaro-Alpine: pertia, perga

Ibero-Romance:

Galician: pértega

Borrowings:

→ English: perch, pertica

desc

→ Portuguese: pértiga, pírtiga (semi-learned) (semi-learned)

→ Old Spanish: piértiga, pértiga (semi-learned) (semi-learned)

→ Spanish: pértiga (semi-learned)

From Proto-Italic *perth, *pertikā (whence also Oscan 𐌐𐌄𐌓𐌄𐌊 (perek, “pole”), Umbrian 𐌐𐌄𐌓𐌊𐌀𐌚 (perkaf, “rod”)), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pertʰ- (“pole, sprout”), and tentatively compared to Ancient Greek πτόρθος (ptórthos, “sprout”), Sanskrit कपृथ् (kapṛth, “penis”), though de Vaan dismisses these extra-Italic connections as "[not] even remotely convincing".
Compare ridica (“stake”).

cog

(units of measure) rod, (especially) the Roman rod of 10 ft (about 3 m)


iugero

iugeri (plural)
jugero (alternative obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin iugerum, from Proto-Italic *jougos (“team of yoked animals”), from Proto-Indo-European *yéwgos, from the root *yewg- (“to join, tie together”).

der

(historical units of measure, Ancient Rome) jugerum


kab

(historical units of measure) Alternative form of cab: a former Hebrew unit of volume.


קנה

he-noun

קָנֶה • (kané) f (plural indefinite קָנִים, singular construct קְנֵה־, plural construct קְנֵי־)

קָנֶה (canonical)
kané (romanization)
קָנִים (indefinite plural)
קְנֵה־ (construct singular)
קְנֵי־ (construct plural)
קָנֶה (indefinite singular)
קָנִי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
קָנֵנוּ (feminine first-person masculine plural possessed-form)
הַקָּנֶה (definite singular)
קָנֶךָ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
קָנֵךְ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
קְנֵֵכֶם (masculine plural possessed-form second-person)
קְנֵֵכֶן (feminine plural possessed-form second-person)
קְנֵה־ (construct singular)
קָנֵהוּ (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
קָנֶהָ (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
קְנֵֵהֶם (masculine plural possessed-form third-person)
קְנֵֵהֶן (feminine plural possessed-form third-person)
קָנִים (indefinite plural)
קניי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
קָנַי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
קָנֵינוּ (feminine first-person masculine plural possessed-form)
הַקָּנִים (definite plural)
קָנֶיךָ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
קנייך (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
קָנַיִךְ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
קְנֵיכֶם (masculine plural possessed-form second-person)
קְנֵיכֶן (feminine plural possessed-form second-person)
קְנֵי־ (construct plural)
קָנָיו (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
קָנֶיהָ (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
קְנֵיהֶם (masculine plural possessed-form third-person)
קְנֵיהֶן (feminine plural possessed-form third-person)

→ English: kaneh

Akin to Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna) (from Akkadian 𒂵𒉡𒌑𒌝 (qanûm, “reed”), see further etymology there) with similar meaning. Compare with English cane, canon, cannon, canal, and channel.

וְהַתָּא קָנֶה אֶחָד אֹרֶךְ וְקָנֶה אֶחָד רֹחַב וּבֵין הַתָּאִים חָמֵשׁ אַמּוֹת וְסַף הַשַּׁעַר מֵאֵצֶל אוּלָם הַשַּׁעַר מֵהַבַּיִת קָנֶה אֶחָד׃

Tanach, Ezekiel [[s:he:T1240#מ_ז|40:7]], with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

And every cell was one reed long, and one reed broad; and the space between the cells was five cubits; and the jambs of the gate by the porch of the gate within were one reed.

v'hatá kané ekhád órekh v'kané ekhád rókhav uvén hata'ím khameśh amót v'sáf hashá'ar me'étsel ulám hashá'ar m'habáyit kané ekhad.


quinconce

Borrowed from Latin quīncuncem, derived from quīnque (“five”) + uncia (“ounce”).

(historical, Ancient Rome):
(units of measure) 5/12 of a Roman foot


근

(units of measure) A geun, catty, or Korean pound, a unit of weight equivalent to about 600 grams.


modius

la-noun

modius m (genitive modiī or modī); second declension

modiī (genitive)
modī (genitive)
modius (nominative singular)
modiī (nominative plural)
modiī (genitive singular)
modī (genitive singular)
modiōrum (genitive plural)
modiō (dative singular)
modiīs (dative plural)
modium (accusative singular)
modiōs (accusative plural)
modiō (ablative singular)
modiīs (ablative plural)
modie (singular vocative)
modiī (plural vocative)

Italo-Romance:

Italian: moggio, mozzo

→ Sardinian: moggiu

Padanian:

Lombard: meugg

Piedmontese: meuj ⇒ armeuj, mojiss

Northern Gallo-Romance:

Bourguignon: meud

Old French: moi, mui

French: muid

→ English: muid

Southern Gallo-Romance:

Old Catalan: muig

Occitan: muèg, mueg

Gascon: moi, muei

Languedocien: muòg

Ibero-Romance:

Galician: moio

Portuguese: moio

Spanish: moyo

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: moju

Sicilian: moju

Borrowings:

→ Ancient Greek: μόδιος (módios)

→ English: modius

→ Italian: modio

→ Middle Dutch: mudde

Dutch: mud

→ Old English: mydd

→ Old Georgian: მოდი (modi)

→ Old High German: mutti

Middle High German: mutte, mütte

German: Mutt, Mütt

→ Old Irish: muide

Irish: muidhe

→ Spanish: modio

(historical units of measure) modius, a unit of dry measure (especially for grain) of about a peck or 9 litres


jugerum

(historical units of measure) Alternative form of juger: a Roman unit of area.


iugerum

iūgerum n (genitive iūgerī); irregular, variously declined, second declension, third declension

iūgerum (canonical neuter)
variously declined (canonical)
iūgerī (genitive)
iūgerum (nominative singular)
iūgera (nominative plural)
iūgerī (genitive singular)
iūgerum (genitive plural)
iūgerō (dative singular)
iūgeribus (dative plural)
iūgerum (accusative singular)
iūgera (accusative plural)
iūgerō (ablative singular)
iūgeribus (ablative plural)
iūgerīs (ablative plural)
iūgerum (singular vocative)
iūgera (plural vocative)
jūgerum (alternative)
iūger (alternative)
jūger (alternative)
iūgerus (alternative)
jūgerus (alternative)

English: jugerum

French: jugère

Italian: iugero

Romanian: iugăr

From Proto-Italic *jougos (“yoked team of animals”), from Proto-Indo-European *yéwgos. The plural preserves the original consonant-stem forms (from an unattested singular *iūgus), while the singular was back-formed from the nominative-accusative plural as a 2nd declension noun.

inh

Ille, Modos, quibus metirentur rura, alius alios constituit. Nam in Hispania ulteriore metiuntur iugis, in Campania versibus, apud nos in agro Romano ac Latino iugeris. Iugum vocant, quod iuncti boves uno die exarare possint.

1st century BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Rerum rusticarum libri III (Agricultural Topics in Three Books). Liber I, X

Each country has its own method of measuring land. Thus in farther Spain the unit of measure is the iugum, in Campania the versus, with us here in the district of Rome and in Latium the iugerum. The iugum is the amount of land which a yoke of oxen can plough in a day; the versus is an area 100 feet square; the iugerum an area containing two square actus.

(historical units of measure) A juger, a Roman unit of area, equivalent to 2 acti or 28,800 square feet (approximately ⅔ acre or ¼ hectare).


gomor

→ English: gomer

From the Vulgate transcription of Ancient Greek γομόρ (gomór) in the Septuagint, from Biblical Hebrew עומר (“sheaf; unit of dry measure”).

der

(historical units of measure) omer, a unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L.


gomer

From Latin gomor in the Vulgate, from Ancient Greek γομόρ (gomór) in the Septuagint, from Hebrew עומר ('ómer, “sheaf; unit of dry measure”).

On the morrow, the 16th, after having offered to God the homer, they began eating the corn of the country; and the 17th the manna ceased to fall from heaven. What supports this calculation is, that the gomer, or sheaf, was offered the 16th of Nisan, in broad day-light, though pretty late.

1801, Thomas Coke, A Commentary on the Holy Bible, page 20:

(historical units of measure, archaic) Alternative form of omer: a former Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts.


iuger

la-noun

iūger n (genitive iūgeris); third declension

iūger (canonical neuter)
iūgeris (genitive)
iūger (nominative singular)
iūgera (nominative plural)
iūgeris (genitive singular)
iūgerum (genitive plural)
iūgerī (dative singular)
iūgeribus (dative plural)
iūger (accusative singular)
iūgera (accusative plural)
iūgere (ablative singular)
iūgeribus (ablative plural)
iūger (singular vocative)
iūgera (plural vocative)

English: juger

French: jugère

(historical units of measure) alternative form of iūgerum: a unit of area


decempeda

decempeda f (genitive decempedae); first declension

decempedae (genitive)
decempeda (nominative singular)
decempedae (nominative plural)
decempedae (genitive singular)
decempedārum (genitive plural)
decempedae (dative singular)
decempedīs (dative plural)
decempedam (accusative singular)
decempedās (accusative plural)
decempedā (ablative singular)
decempedīs (ablative plural)
decempeda (singular vocative)
decempedae (plural vocative)

Italian: decempeda

From decem (“ten”) + pes (“foot; Roman foot”). Senses influenced by the Greek equivalent ἄκαινα (ákaina), a 10-foot measure based on a standardization of the goad used to drive plough oxen.

(historical units of measure) A unit of length equal to 10 Roman feet.

(historical units of measure) A unit of area equal to a square with sides of 10 Roman feet.


rotl

Dram (49·5 grains), 100=chequi, 4=oka (2·8286 ℔); dram (49·5 grains), 180=rotl, 100=kintal or kantar (127·29 ℔).

1888, W.M.F. Petrie, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXIV, s.v. "Weights and Measures"

(historical units of measure) Alternative form of rottol: a former Middle Eastern and North African unit of weight, usually 1–5 pounds (0.5–2.5 kg).


rotal

(historical units of measure, obsolete) Alternative form of rottol: a former Middle Eastern and North African unit of dry weight variously equal to 1–5 lbs. (.5–2.5 kg.).


fotmal

From Middle English fotmal, from Old English fōtmǣl (“step by step”, literally “foot-measure”), equivalent to foot + -meal. Doublet of footmeal.

der

(obsolete, units of measure) An old English unit of weight of 70 pounds, used particularly for lead

1⁄70 fotmal & for smaller subdivisions

Tower pound, troy pound, avoirdupois pound


seah

uder

Hebrew סְאִים֙

(historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about 7.7 L or 7 quarts.


footmeal

From Middle English footmele, fotmelen, from Old English fōtmǣlum (“step by step, by degrees”), dative plural of Old English fōtmǣl (“a foot-measure, one foot”), equivalent to foot + -meal.


picul

piculs (plural)
pical (alternative)
pikal (alternative)
pikol (alternative)
pikul (alternative)
pico (alternative)
picol (alternative)
pecul (alternative)
peecul (alternative)
peecull (alternative)

From Malay pikul, with influence from earlier Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese pico.

Powder sugar of China, the hundred cattees or peecull worth fortie to fiftie.

c. 1605, John Saris, quoted in Anthony Farrington's The English Factory in Japan (1991), p. 56

The coal is sold for 130 cash... per picul of 133 pounds.

1888, Archibald John Little, Through the Yang-tse Gorges, page 279:

(units of measure) A traditional South and East Asian unit of weight, based upon the load of a shoulder pole and varying by place and over time but usually standardized at about 60 kg.


ḏbꜥ

Dba (canonical masculine)
ḏbꜥ (singular)
ḏbꜥwj (dual)
ḏbꜥw (plural)

Akhmimic Coptic: ϯⲉⲓⲃⲉ (tieibe)

Bohairic Coptic: ⲧⲏⲃ (tēb)

Fayyumic Coptic: ⲧⲉⲉⲃⲉ (teebe)

Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲧⲏⲃⲉ (tēbe)

Sahidic Coptic: ⲧⲏⲏⲃⲉ (tēēbe)

Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE

Compare with Arabic إصبع (ʔiṣbaʕ, “finger”) and Mina dzəbuŋ (“five”).

(units of measure) digit: a measure of length equal to ¹⁄₂₈ cubit (about 1.88 cm).


digit

From Middle English digit, from Latin digitus (“a fingerbreadth; a number”). Doublet of digitus and dedo.

bit

position in a sequence of numerals, symbol in a positional number system

A six-digit eclipse covers half the lunar surface.

(units of measure, astronomy) ¹⁄₁₂ the apparent diameter of the sun or moon, (chiefly) as a measure of the totality of an eclipse.

(historical units of measure) A unit of length notionally based upon the width of an adult human finger, standardized differently in various places and times, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot, now equivalent to about 1.9 cm.

(units of measure, obsolete) Synonym of inch.


famn

famn m (definite singular famnen, indefinite plural famnar, definite plural famnane)

famnen (definite singular)
famnar (indefinite plural)
famnane (definite plural)

From Old Norse faðmr, from Proto-Germanic *faþmaz. Akin to English fathom.


חומר

he-noun

חומר / חֹמֶר • (khómer) m (plural indefinite חומרים / חֳמָרִים, singular construct חומר / חֹמֶר־, plural construct חומרי / חָמְרֵי־) [pattern: קֹטֶל]

חֹמֶר (canonical)
khómer (romanization)
חומרים (indefinite plural)
חֳמָרִים (indefinite plural)
חומר (construct singular)
חֹמֶר־ (construct singular)
חומרי (construct plural)
חָמְרֵי־ (construct plural)

English: homer, chomer

(historical units of measure) A homer, a former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6½ bushels.

(historical units of measure) synonym of כֹּר, an approximately equal Hebrew unit of liquid volume.


עשרון

עֶשְׂרוֹנִים

עֶשְׂרוֹנוֹת

עִשָּׂרוֹן • (isarón) m (plural indefinite עֶשְׂרוֹנִים or עֶשְׂרוֹנוֹת)

עִשָּׂרוֹן (canonical)
isarón (romanization)
עֶשְׂרוֹנִים (indefinite plural)
עֶשְׂרוֹנוֹת (indefinite plural)
עִשָּׂרֹן (alternative)

→ English: issaron

(historical units of measure) a former Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L.


עומר

עומר / עֹמֶר • ('ómer) m [pattern: קֹטֶל]

→ English: omer

→ Ancient Greek: γομόρ (gomór)

→ Latin: gomor
→ English: gomer

→ Old Georgian: გომორი (gomori)

An internal Northwest Semitic innovation from the root better known in Arabic غ م ر (ḡ m r) as related to “abundance”, “overflowing”.

ar-root

غ م ر (ḡ m r)

(historical units of measure) omer (a former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts)


Italian mile

From Calque of Italian miglio (“(Italian) mile”), with a qualifier to distinguish it from other miles.

calque

(units of measure) Various traditional Italian units of length, particularly the Genovese and Roman miles


international mile

en-noun

international mile (plural international miles)

From its origin as a compromise value at the 1959 conference among the Anglophone nations to establish a unified value for the yard and pound.

(units of measure) The present formal value of the mile as precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers, as opposed to other historic or informal values.


πλέθρο

pléthro (romanization)
πλέθρα (plural)
πλέθρο (nominative singular)
πλέθρα (nominative plural)
πλέθρου (genitive singular)
πλέθρων (genitive plural)
πλέθρο (accusative singular)
πλέθρα (accusative plural)
πλέθρο (singular vocative)
πλέθρα (plural vocative)


אמה

he-noun

אַמָּה • (amá) f (plural indefinite אַמּוֹת)

אַמָּה (canonical)
amá (romanization)
אַמּוֹת (indefinite plural)
אַמָּה (indefinite singular)
אַמָּתִי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
אַמָּתֵנוּ (feminine first-person masculine plural possessed-form)
הָאַמָּה (definite singular)
אַמָּתְךָ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
אַמָּתֵךְ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
אַמַּתְכֶם (masculine plural possessed-form second-person)
אַמַּתְכֶן (feminine plural possessed-form second-person)
אַמַּת־ (construct singular)
אַמָּתוֹ (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
אַמָּתָהּ (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
אַמָּתָם (masculine plural possessed-form third-person)
אַמָּתָן (feminine plural possessed-form third-person)
אַמּוֹת (indefinite plural)
אמותיי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
אַמּוֹתַי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
אַמּוֹתֵינוּ (feminine first-person masculine plural possessed-form)
הָאַמּוֹת (definite plural)
אַמּוֹתֶיךָ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
אמותייך (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
אַמּוֹתַיִךְ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
אַמּוֹתֵיכֶם (masculine plural possessed-form second-person)
אַמּוֹתֵיכֶן (feminine plural possessed-form second-person)
אַמּוֹת־ (construct plural)
אַמּוֹתָיו (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
אַמּוֹתֶיהָ (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
אַמּוֹתָם (masculine plural possessed-form third-person)
אַמּוֹתָן (feminine plural possessed-form third-person)

(units of measure) Hebrew cubit, usually 44.3 cm (17½ in) but sometimes 51.8 cm (20.4 in)


chomer

From Hebrew חומר / חֹמֶר (khómer, “clay, heap, large unit of volume”).

he-m

(historical units of measure) Alternative form of homer: a former Hebrew unit of volume.


rottolo

Variant of Italian rotolo, from Arabic رُطْل (ruṭl), variant of classical رِطْل (riṭl), from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra).

ROTTOLO, in Commerce, a weight used in Italy and the Levant. At Aleppo, and its port Scanderoon, the cantaro contains 100 rottoli, each of which is subdivided into 12 ounces, or 720 drachms; the great cantaro of Tripoli contains 175 rottoli, and the zurlo consists of 27½ rottoli. This rottolo, with which most sorts of goods are weighed, weighs 5 lbs. avoirdupois nearly. The rottolo with which the silks from Tripoli, and other parts of Syria, are weighed, consists of 700 drachms, answering to 4⅞ avoirdupois. The rottolo used in weighing the Persian silks contains 680 drachms, or nearly 4¾ lbs. avoirdupois. The rottolo of Damascus, with which brass, camphor, benzoin, spikenard, balsam of Mecca, and other drugs are weighed, contains 600 drachms, or 4¹⁄₅ lbs. avoirdupois. Five rottoli, or 3600 drachms, make what is called a vesno... At Saide, in Syria, (the ancient Sidon,) silk and sattin yarn are weighed with the rottolo of Damascus, of 600 drachms; 100 such rottoli answering to about 410 lbs. avoirdupois. Heavy goods are weighed with the rottolo of Acre, 100 of which are = 482 lbs. avoirdupois. At Constantinople, the cantaro, or quintal, contains 44 okes, or 100 rottoli; and the cantaro weighs about 123¾ lbs. avoirdupois, the oke 2lbs. 13 oz., and the rottolo 19⁴⁄₅ oz., and the chequee 11¼ oz. avoirdupois. At Leghorn, the rottolo is 3 lbs. At Naples, the cantaro grosso contains 100 rottoli, each weighing 33⅓ ounces of the gold and silver weight, or 31³⁄₇ ounces avoirdupois. Hence 28 rottoli = 55 lbs. avoirdupois, and the cantaro grosso = 196½ lbs. avoirdupois. The cantaro picolo is = 106 lbs. avoirdupois nearly. In Sicily these different weights are used, viz. the rottolo grosso of 33 ounces, the rottolo sotile of 30 ounces, and the libra, or pound of 12 ounces. 10 lbs. of Sicily = 7 lbs. avoirdupois nearly; and, therefore, 40 rottoli grossi, or 44 rottoli sotile = 77 lbs. avoirdupois. A cantaro grosso contains 100 rottoli grossi, or 192½ lbs. avoirdupois; a cantaro sotile is 100 rottoli sottili, and is = 175 lbs. avoirdupois. At Smyrna, the cantaro, or kintal, contains 45 okes, or 100 rottoli. The batman is 6 okes, or 2400 drachms; and the oke is 400 drachms, and the rottolo = 180 drachms. The cantaro of 45 okes weighs 123 lbs. 4 oz. avoirdupois; and, therefore, the oke is = 2 lbs. 11 oz. 13 drs. avoirdupois. At Tripoli, the cantaro weight contains 100 rottoli, each of 6 ounces, or 128 termini; this cantaro answers to 168 lbs. peso sotile of Venice, or about 12 lbs. avoirdupois. At Tunis, the cantaro contains 100 rottoli, each of 16 Tunis ounces, and weighs about 111 lbs. avoirdupois...

1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia, Vol. XXX, p. 614

(historical units of measure) Alternative form of rottol: a former Middle Eastern and North African unit of dry weight, usually between 1–5 pounds (.5–2.5 kg).


촌

Sino-Korean word from 寸, from the Middle Korean reading 촌〯 (Yale: chwǒn).

the hanja entry at 寸 for Sino-Korean compounds of 촌

(units of measure, rare) synonym of 치 (chi): the chi or Korean inch.

(units of measure, rare) synonym of 돈 (don): the don, a small unit of weight.


rottol

rottols (plural)
rotol (alternative)
rotolo (alternative)
rottolo (alternative)
rotal (alternative)
rotl (alternative)
rottil (alternative)
rottle (alternative)
rutl (alternative)
rethel (alternative)
rethl (alternative)
rattle (alternative)
ratl (alternative)

From Arabic رُطْل (ruṭl), variant of classical رِطْل (riṭl) and vernacular رَطْل (raṭl), under the influence of French rotte and Italian rotolo, ultimately from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra). Doublet of arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, lira, litra, litre, and livre.

doublet

Michael Howell's troubles begin with an unauthorised laboratory order for ten rottols of absolute alcohol. One rottol equals two okes, one oke weighs just over a quarter of a kilo, and if you're dealing in such antediluvian weights and measures one must be in the notoriously unstable enclave of Middle Eastern states formerly known as the Levant.

2005 December 16, Alfred Hickling, “Pure Thrills”, in The Guardian, page 19:

(historical units of measure) A former Middle Eastern and North African unit of dry weight, usually between 1–5 pounds (0.5–2.5 kg).


okka

(historical units of measure) Alternative form of oka.


okka

(historical units of measure) An oka, a former Turkish unit of weight, usually of a little more than a kilogram.


πλέθρον

grc-noun

πλέθρον • (pléthron) n (genitive πλέθρου); second declension

pléthron (romanization)
πλέθρου (genitive)
τὸ πλέθρον (nominative singular)
πλέθρω (dual nominative)
τᾰ̀ πλέθρᾰ (nominative plural)
τοῦ πλέθρου (genitive singular)
πλέθροιν (dual genitive)
πλέθρων (genitive plural)
τῷ πλέθρῳ (dative singular)
πλέθροιν (dative dual)
τοῖς πλέθροις (dative plural)
τὸ πλέθρον (accusative singular)
πλέθρω (accusative dual)
τᾰ̀ πλέθρᾰ (accusative plural)
πλέθρον (singular vocative)
πλέθρω (dual vocative)
πλέθρᾰ (plural vocative)
πέλεθρον (alternative)
βλέθρον (alternative)

→ English: plethron

→ Italian: pletro

Uncertain. Typically has been compared with the root of πίμπλημι (pímplēmi, “I fill up”) (< Proto-Indo-European *pípleh₁mi) (cf. πλήθω (plḗthō) and πληθῡ́ς (plēthū́s) (< *pléh₁-dʰeh₁-) + -θρον (-thron), in which case it could be from Proto-Indo-European *pléh₁dʰrom, though long *ή (*ḗ) would be expected. However, the phonetic alternations in πέλεθρον (pélethron) and βλέθρον (bléthron) suggest a more complicated origin. According to Beekes, it is probably a loanword.
The word may be cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀤𐀩𐀴𐀪𐀍 (qe-re-ti-ri-jo, in context a dual nominative noun of uncertain meaning), if the Mycenaean word is not related to βλῆτρον (blêtron, “fastening band”) instead. If so, the original form must have begun with a labiovelar such as */kʷ/, rather than /p/ or /b/.

cog

(units of measure) a plethron (a unit of length equal to 100 Greek feet (podes)

(units of measure) a plethron (a unit of area equal to 10,000 square Greek feet (podes)


στάδιον

grc-noun

στᾰ́δῐον • (stắdĭon) n (genitive στᾰδῐ́ου); second declension

στᾰ́δῐον (canonical)
stắdĭon (romanization)
στᾰδῐ́ου (genitive)
τὸ στᾰ́δῐον (nominative singular)
στᾰδῐ́ω (dual nominative)
τᾰ̀ στᾰ́δῐᾰ (nominative plural)
τοῦ στᾰδῐ́ου (genitive singular)
στᾰδῐ́οιν (dual genitive)
στᾰδῐ́ων (genitive plural)
τῷ στᾰδῐ́ῳ (dative singular)
στᾰδῐ́οιν (dative dual)
τοῖς στᾰδῐ́οις (dative plural)
τὸ στᾰ́δῐον (accusative singular)
στᾰδῐ́ω (accusative dual)
τᾰ̀ στᾰ́δῐᾰ (accusative plural)
στᾰ́δῐον (singular vocative)
στᾰδῐ́ω (dual vocative)
στᾰ́δῐᾰ (plural vocative)
σπάδιον (alternative)

Greek: στάδιο (stádio)

→ Bulgarian: стадион (stadion)

→ English: stadion

→ German: Stadion

desc

→ Hebrew: אצטדיון

→ Hebrew: אצטדיון

→ Hungarian: stadion

→ Latin: stadium

Catalan: estadi

→ Czech: stádium

→ English: stadium

French: stade

→ English: stade

Italian: stadio

Spanish: estadio

→ Macedonian: стадион (stadion)

→ Old Armenian: ստադիոն (stadion)

→ Old Georgian: სტადიონი (sṭadioni, “step; stadium”)

→ Russian: стадион (stadion)

→ Serbo-Croatian: stadion, стадион

→ Ukrainian: стадіо́н (stadión)

Uncertain, but possibly from στάδιος (stádios, “firm, fixed”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”), in reference to the fixed distance of the course. The relation with the alternative form σπάδιον (spádion), which ostensibly looks like a derivative of σπᾰ́ω (spắō, “to draw, drag”), as well as whether one is derived from the other or not, is unclear.

der

(historical units of measure) A stade, a unit of distance based on the length of a racetrack, equal to 600 Greek feet (variously 150–210 m at different places and times).


lethek

(historical units of measure) A former Hebrew measure of dry volume, equal to about 115 L or 3¼ bushels.


lethech

(historical units of measure) Alternative form of lethek: a former Hebrew unit of dry volume.


issaron

From Hebrew עשרון ('isarón, “tenth”), from its value as ¹⁄₁₀ of an ephah.

(historical units of measure) Synonym of omer: a Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts.


heredium

la-noun

hērēdium n (genitive hērēdiī or hērēdī); second declension

hērēdium (canonical neuter)
hērēdiī (genitive)
hērēdī (genitive)
hērēdium (nominative singular)
hērēdia (nominative plural)
hērēdiī (genitive singular)
hērēdī (genitive singular)
hērēdiōrum (genitive plural)
hērēdiō (dative singular)
hērēdiīs (dative plural)
hērēdium (accusative singular)
hērēdia (accusative plural)
hērēdiō (ablative singular)
hērēdiīs (ablative plural)
hērēdium (singular vocative)
hērēdia (plural vocative)

From heres (“heir”) + -ium (suffix forming neuter nouns). Its use as a unit of area derives from an early land reform which bequeathed 2 jugers of land to each Roman citizen as heritable property.

(historical units of measure) A former Roman unit of area (approximately 1¼ acres or ½ hectare).


냥

(units of measure) A liang, a Korean unit of weight equivalent to about 40 g.


sải

head

仕, 庹, 𢩿, 𢲮, 𪪪

vi-noun

仕, 庹, 𢩿, 𢲮, 𪪪


teiga

From Old Galician-Portuguese teeyga, from Andalusian Arabic تَعْلِيقَة (taʕlíqa, “hanging thing”). Doublet of taleiga and of tega; cognate with Spanish talega.

der

(historical units of measure) a unit of dry measure, especially for grain (¹⁄₁₆ moio)


litru

From French litre, from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”). Doublet of libra and lira. Compare Sicilian litra (“ancient Sicilian coin”).

cog

Marìa, vâ pigghia 'n litru 'i ogghiu.


cachena

(units of measure, dated) a small traditional unit of dry measure, inferior to a cunca ( ~ 1 l)


heqat

heqats (plural)
heqat (plural)
hekat (alternative)

(historical units of measure) An Ancient Egyptian dry measure of volume equivalent to 10 hins (or about 4.8 litres).


kunca

(units of measure) A traditional Malay unit of volume, equivalent to a hundred and sixteen imperial gallons.


covid

In weights and measures one hundred catties were equivalent to one picul, or 133½ English pounds; in cloth or long measure ten “poontas” to one covid, and two covids to thirty-six inches English.

1908, William Babcock Weeden, Early Oriental Commerce in Providence:

But the usual dimensions of a piece of muslin were 40 x 2 covids, the lower and the upper bounds being 36 x 1 and 48 x 3 covids, respectively.

2014, Om Prakash, The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal, 1630-1720:

A measure of length, the Chinese cubit, by Europeans called covid.

1815, A dictionary of the Chinese language, in three parts:

From east to west it was nine covids, and from south to north seven yen, (63 covids).

1852, Li Zhou, translated by William Raymond Gingell, The Ceremonial Usages of the Chinese, B. C. 1121, page 4:


pletro

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πλέθρον (pléthron).

bor+

(historical units of measure) plethron (unit of length)


ĥomero

eo-head

ĥomero (accusative singular ĥomeron, plural ĥomeroj, accusative plural ĥomerojn)

ĥomeron (accusative singular)
ĥomeroj (plural)
ĥomerojn (accusative plural)


covit

(archaic, units of measure) Alternative form of covid.


rottle

(historical units of measure) Alternative form of rottol.


홉

First attested in the Gugeupbang eonhae (救急方諺解 / 구급방언해), 1466, as Middle Korean 홉 (Yale: hwòp).

ko-etym-native

(units of measure) a unit of volume equivalent to about 180 ml


kepul

ms-noun

kepul (Jawi spelling کڤول, plural kepul-kepul)

(units of measure) A traditional Malay unit of volume, equivalent to an imperial gill, or one-sixteenth of an imperial gallon.


nalih

(units of measure) A traditional Malay unit of volume, equivalent to sixteen imperial gallons.