celemín
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic ثُمُنِ (ṯumuni, “of one-eighth”). Doublet of tomín and azumbre. Cognate with Portuguese celamim and Galician celamín.
Noun
celemín m (plural celemines)
- (historical) celemin (a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 4.6 liters)
- (historical) celemin (a traditional unit of land area vaguely reckoned as the amount of land that could be sown with a celemin of seed)
- (historical) celemin (a traditional unit of land area formalized as equivalent to about 537 m²)
Synonyms
- (all): almud (Spain)
Coordinate terms
- (unit of dry volume): cuartillo (1⁄4 celemín), medio (1⁄2 celemín), cuartilla (3 celemines), hemina (5 celemines), cuarto (6 celemines), fanega (12 celemines), saco (24 celemines), carga (48 celemines), cahíz (144 celemines)
- (formal unit of area): cuartillo (1⁄4 celemín), aranzada (81⁄3 celemines), fanega (50 celemines), yugada (600 celemines), caballería (720 celemines)
References
- Esther Vivancos Mulero (2010) “Estudio de los nombres de las medidas agrarias antiguas de la región de Murcia”, in Revista Murgetana (in Spanish), volume 122, pages 228–229
Further reading
- “celemín”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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