stremma
English
Etymology
From Byzantine Greek στρέμμα (strémma, “a turning”), referring to the turning of the soil.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛmə
Noun
stremma (plural stremmas or stremmata)
- A Greek unit of land area, now equal to a decare (1,000 m²) but (historical) previously 10,000 square Greek feet.
- (obsolete) The dunam, the Turkish unit of land area derived from the Greek unit.
Usage notes
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.
Hyponyms
- royal stremma (modern value)
- square plethron (medieval value)
- See dunam (Turkish values)