stremma

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Etymology

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From Byzantine Greek στρέμμα (strémma, a turning), referring to the turning of the soil.

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Noun

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stremma (plural stremmas or stremmata)

  1. A Greek unit of land area, now equal to a decare (1,000 m²) but (historical) previously 10,000 square Greek feet.
  2. (obsolete) The dunam, the Turkish unit of land area derived from the Greek unit.

Usage notes

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The standard was that the stremma was equal to a square formed by sides of 100 Greek feet, but in practice this was adjusted at a provincial or local level for differences in land quality to accommodate the term's colloquial sense of denoting the area able to be plowed in a day of work, a usage equivalent to the English acre.

Abbreviated in English as str.

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