iugerum
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Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈjuː.ɡe.rum/, [ˈjuː.ɡɛ.rũ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈju.d͡ʒe.rum/, [ˈjuː.d͡ʒe.rum]
Noun[edit]
iūgerum n (variously declined, genitive iūgerī); second declension, third declension
- (historical units of measure) A juger, a Roman unit of area.
- ante 27 BC, M. Terentius Varro, Res Rusticae in Libri De Re Rustica (1514), bk I, ch. x, p. 29a:
- ILLE. Modos, ꝗbus metirentur rura, alius alios conſtituit. Na᷄ in Hiſpania ulteriore metiuntur iugis, in campania uerſibus, apud nos in agro Romano, ac latino iugeris.
- ante 27 BC, M. Terentius Varro, Res Rusticae in Libri De Re Rustica (1514), bk I, ch. x, p. 29a:
Declension[edit]
Second–third-declension hybrid neuter.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | iūgerum | iūgera |
Genitive | iūgerī | iūgerum |
Dative | iūgerō | iūgeribus |
Accusative | iūgerum | iūgera |
Ablative | iūgerō | iūgeribus iūgerīs1 |
Vocative | iūgerum | iūgera |
1Once only, in:
M. Terentius Varro, Res Rusticae, bk I, ch. x
Meronyms[edit]
- decempeda (1⁄288 iugerum); clima (⅛ iugerum); actus (½ iugerum); heredium (2 iugera); centuria (200 iugera); saltus (800 iugera)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- 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
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