iugerum

== Latin == === Alternative forms === jūgerum iūger, jūger iūgerus, jūgerus === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈjuː.ɡɛ.rũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈjuː.d͡ʒe.rum] === Noun === iūgerum n (genitive iūgerī); irregular, variously declined, second declension, third declension (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). ==== Declension ==== Second–third-declension hybrid noun (neuter). 1Once only, in:M. Terentius Varro, Res Rusticae, bk I, ch. x ==== Meronyms ==== decempeda (1⁄288 iugerum); clima (1⁄8 iugerum); actus (1⁄2 iugerum); heredium (2 iugera); centuria (200 iugera); saltus (800 iugera) ==== Descendants ==== English: jugerum French: jugère Italian: iugero Romanian: iugăr === References === “iugerum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “iugerum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “jugerum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “iugerum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers