zero

From Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”).

(metrology) zero; origin point of a scale


as

From Latin as (“basic Roman unit of money”).

(historical, metrology) an as or a libra (Roman unit of weight)


pam

Inherited from Old Catalan palm, from Latin palmus. Doublet of palm and palma. Cognate with Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish palmo.

span, handspan, an informal unit of measure based on a hand's width


ampere

Borrowed from French ampère, from French physicist André-Marie Ampère.


atto-

Borrowed from Danish atten (“eighteen”).


tesla

Named after Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla.


kilo-

Borrowed from French kilo-, from Ancient Greek χίλιοι (khílioi, “thousand”).

der

kilo- (SI prefix expressing 10³ of the base unit)


quart

Inherited from Latin quārtus (“fourth”).

a political subdivision of the parishes La Massana, Ordino, and Sant Julià de Lòria in Andorra


vara

Inherited from Latin vāra (“fork”). Cognate with Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish vara.

(historical, measure) vara, a Spanish rod, ell, or yard, a traditional unit of length


marc

Of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *marką.

(historical) marco, Spanish mark, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 230 g


pas

Inherited from Old Catalan pas, from Latin passus (“step”). Its use as an auxiliary adverb comes from an accusative use (Latin nec…passum) in negative constructions – literally ‘not…a step’, i.e. ‘not at all’ – originally used with certain verbs of motion. Compare similarly used French pas. Cognate with Galician and Spanish paso and Portuguese passo.

(historical, measure) paso, Spanish pace, a traditional unit of length


atmosfera

From New Latin atmosphaera, from Ancient Greek ἀτμός (atmós, “steam”) + σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “sphere”). Equivalent to atmo- + -sfera.


dit

Inherited from Latin digitus. Doublet of dígit. Cognate with Occitan det and dit, French doigt, Spanish dedo and dígito, Portuguese dedo and dígito, and Galician dedo.

tres o quatre dits d'ample


gra

Inherited from Latin grānum (compare French grain, Occitan gran, Spanish grano), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. Cognate with Portuguese grão, Galician gran, and Spanish grano.

grain, other units of measure notionally based on the weight of various grains


barril

barrel (quantity which constitutes a full barrel)


nus

Possibly a deverbal of nusar, from Vulgar Latin *nōdāre, from Latin nōdus. Alternatively, from the plural of nu, from older Old Catalan nuu, from Vulgar Latin *nūdus, alteration of Latin nōdus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gned-, *gnod- (“to bind”). Compare Occitan nos, French nœud, Spanish nudo.


centúria

(historical) a Roman unit of measure equivalent to 100 jugers


tona

Inherited from Late Latin tunna. Doublet of tonya. Cognate with Portuguese, Galician, and Spanish tonel.

tun (cask with a capacity of more than 500 liters)


colze

Inherited from Old Catalan colde, from pre-literary *coude (with hypercorrection of coda [w] to [ɫ]), from Latin cubitum. Compare the development of Catalan malalt, delme from original malaute, deume (Latin male habitus, decimus). The subsequent change from /d/ to /(d)z/ may have been by analogy with polze (“thumb”). Doublet of cúbit, a borrowing from Latin.

(historical) codo, Spanish cubit, a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 41.6 cm


ploma

(historical) Measure of water flow ranging anywhere from 2200 to 14,000 liters/day depending on the time and place


tercer

ca-noun

tercer m (plural tercers, feminine tercera)

(obsolete) tierce; unit of liquid measure


bua

(archaic, nautical, metrology) a unit of length used in measuring ships. Approximately the same as a yard, it was defined as 4 pams (“spans”)


salma

(historical) measure of capacity considered the maximum a pack animal could carry (in Barcelona equal to 278 liters)


braça

Inherited from Latin brachia, variant of bracchium (“forearm, cubit”), from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn, “upper arm”).

der

(historical, measure) braza, a Spanish brace or fathom, a former unit of length


octava

Borrowed from Latin octāvus (“one-eighth”). Doublet of octau. Cognate with Spanish ochava and Galician and Portuguese oitava.

bor+

(music) octave, the interval of 12 semitones or 8 degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving of a given pitch

(Christianity) octave, the day one week after a feast day, the eighth day counting inclusively in the Roman method

(Christianity) octave, the week beginning on a feast day, eight days counting inclusively in the Roman method

(historical) ochava, a traditional unit of mass equal to ⅛ of the Spanish ounce


quartal

(Western Catalonia) A dry measure for grain, of varying capacity.


quilo-

kilo- (SI prefix expressing 10³ of the base unit)


forc

a little span (distance from thumb to forefinger)


unitat astronòmica

ca-noun

unitat astronòmica f (plural unitats astronòmiques)


quirat

From Arabic قِيرَاط (qīrāṭ, “husk”), from Ancient Greek κεράτιον (kerátion, “carob seed”), diminutive form of κέρας (kéras, “horn”).


àrea

Learned borrowing from Latin ārea. Compare the inherited doublet era (“threshing floor”).


polzada

From polze (“thumb”) + -ada (noun-forming suffix).

af

(historical, measure) pulgada, Spanish inch, a former unit of length


quilogram

From quilo- + gram, calqued from French kilogramme.


fustet

a certain size of wooden beam, varying between 30 and 32 pam of length, and about 1 pam thick and 1+1/4 pam wide.


quintana

A term for various types of farm fields:

The cultivated field closest to a farmhouse.


calorimètric

ca-adj

calorimètric (feminine calorimètrica, masculine plural calorimètrics, feminine plural calorimètriques)

calorimètrica (feminine)
calorimètrics (masculine plural)
calorimètriques (feminine plural)


mesada

El setge de la ciutat va durar més de dues mesades.

The siege of the city lasted for more than two months.

a period of time equivalent in length to a month


mujada

From Late Latin modiāta, from modius (“measure”). Equivalent to muig + -ada.

Al segle XVIII —ja una mica ordenat—, a Catalunya solament, i només per a amidar les superfícies, hi havia els sistemes següents: a Barcelona i a la seva zona d'influència (Pla del Llobregat, Vallès i part del Maresme) s'utilitzava la mujada (equivalent a unes 49 àrees d'avui), que es subdividia en quartes i mundines.

1956, Enric Moreu-Rey, El naixement del metre:

In the 18th century--already a bit tidied up---only in Catalonia, and just for measuring land area, there were the following systems: in Barcelona and its zone of influence (Pla del Llobregat, Vallès and part of Maresme), they used the mujada (equivalent to some 49 modern-day ares), which was subdivided into quarters and sixths.

(historical, Barcelona) A unit of land area defined as the amount that a team of oxen could plow in a day, roughly equivalent to an acre.


llegua

Inherited from Late Latin leuga (“Gaulish mile”). Cognate with Spanish and Galician legua and Portuguese légua.

inh+

(historical) legua, Spanish league, a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 4.2 km


faneca

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic فَنِيقَة (fanīqah, “sack”).

bor+

(historical) a unit of dry measure equivalent to 8 or 12 almuds and varying from anywhere between 10 and 43 litres


cavall de vapor

ca-noun

cavall de vapor m (plural cavalls de vapor)


porró

(historical) a liquid measure equivalent to 0.94 litres


regadora

an obsolete measure of water flow equivalent to upwards of 300,000 litres/day


metrològic

ca-adj

metrològic (feminine metrològica, masculine plural metrològics, feminine plural metrològiques)

metrològica (feminine)
metrològics (masculine plural)
metrològiques (feminine plural)


raima

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic رَزْمَة (rázma), from Arabic رِزْمَة (rizma, “bundle”).


quartà

(historical) a dry measure equal to four picotins or approximately 6 litres


barcella

Borrowed from a Mozarabic descendant of Late Latin particella, diminutive of Latin particula. The change from /p-/ to /b-/ would be the result of Arabic influence.

(historical) a dry measure equivalent to 11.7 litres, divided into six almuds in Mallorca and four in the Valencian Community


jovada

From jova (“team of oxen”) + -ada, because it was equivalent to the amount of land which could be ploughed by a team of oxen in a single day.

(historical) a juger; a measure of area for farmland of variable value, equal to 11.36 hectares in Mallorca, 2.99 hectares in Valencia, and between 0.25 ha i 0.3 hectares in Catalonia


petricó

Perhaps ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥-, the zero-grade form of *kʷetwóres (“four”).

(informal) a unit of fluid measure, equivalent to one quarter of a litre


galó

Borrowed from English gallon, from Old Northern French galun.


almodí

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic مُدّي, from Arabic مُدّ (mudd).

(historical) A dry measure equal to approximately 2 hectoliters.


pessic

Mediterranean shamefaced crab (Calappa granulata)


polsada

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


adaram

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic الدرهم (ad-dárham), from Arabic دِرْهَم (dirham, “dirham”), from Middle Persian 𐭦𐭥𐭦𐭭 (drahm), from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ, “drachma”). Doublet of dracma and dírham.

der

(historical) adarme (unit of measure equal to 1.8 grams)


bovada

(Valencia, colloquial) foolish act, blunder