noun · neuterirregular, variously declined, second declension, third declension
iūgerum
iūgerum n (genitive iūgerī)
Classical[ˈjuː.ɡɛ.rũː]Ecclesiastical[ˈjuː.d͡ʒe.rum]
Meaning
- historicalA juger, a Roman unit of area, equivalent to 2 acti or 28,800 square feet (approximately ⅔ acre or ¼ hectare).
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.
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.1st century BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Rerum rusticarum libri III (Agricultural Topics in Three Books).Liber I, X
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | iūgerum | iūgera |
| genitive | iūgerī | iūgerum iūgerōrum |
| dative | iūgerō | iūgeribus |
| accusative | iūgerum | iūgera |
| ablative | iūgerō jūgere, iūgere | iūgeribus iūgerīs |
| vocative | iūgerum | iūgera |
jūgĕrum, i (in sing. acc. to the second, in plur. mostly acc. to the third declension;
I. gen. plur. always jugerum; cf. Lachm. in Rhein. Mus. 1845, pp. 609-612), n., an acre, or rather juger of land, measuring 28,800 square feet, or 240 feet in length by 120 in breadth (whereas the English acre measures 43,560 square feet):
in Hispania ulteriore metiuntur jugis, in Campania versibus, apud nos in agro Romano ac Latino jugeris, Varr. R. R. 1, 10: ex jugero decumano, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 47, § 113: is partes fecit in ripa, nescio quotenorum jugerum, id. Att. 12, 33: donare clientem Jugeribus paucis, Juv. 9, 60; 14, 163.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
iūgerum ī, n gen plur. iūgerūm; dat. and abl. iūgeribus, n
IV-, an acre, juger (containing 28,000 square feet): decumanum: quaterna in singulos iugera, Cs.: nescio quotenorum iugerum: per tota novem iugera Porrigitur, V.: immetata quibus iugera Fruges ferunt, i. e. lands, H.: novem Iugeribus distentus, O.
Origins
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.
Descendants
- Englishjugerum
- Frenchjugère
- Italianiugero
- Romanianiugăr
In English words that came into English from iūgerum
- jugeriūger