jugerum
Sign in to saveThe jugerum or juger (, ', ', or '''') was a Roman unit of area, equivalent to a rectangle 240 Roman feet in length and 120 feet in width (about 71×35m), i.e. 28,800 square Roman feet () or about hectare (0.623 acre).
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- unit of area
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- conversion to standard unit
- 0.2518
- conversion to SI unit
- 2518.2
- measured physical quantity
- area
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- wd:Q251545 p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?source; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. ?item p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?target; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. BIND(?source / ?target as ?value)
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The jugerum or juger (, ', ', or '''') was a Roman unit of area, equivalent to a rectangle 240 Roman feet in length and 120 feet in width (about 71×35m), i.e. 28,800 square Roman feet () or about hectare (0.623 acre).
==Name== It was the double of the , and from this circumstance, according to some writers, it derived its name. It seems probable that, as the word was evidently originally the same as , a yoke, and as , in its original use, meant a path wide enough to drive a single beast along, that originally meant a path wide enough for a yoke of oxen, namely, the double of the in width; and that when was used for a square measure of surface, the , by a natural analogy, became the double of the ; and that this new meaning of it superseded its old use as the double of the single .
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