polegada
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- pollegada (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese polegada, from Vulgar Latin *pollicāta, from Latin pollicāris or pollex (“thumb”). Compare Spanish pulgada.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: po‧le‧ga‧da
Noun
polegada f (plural s)
- inch (a unit of length equal to one-twelfth of a foot and equivalent to exactly 2.54 centimetres)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:polegada.
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