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celemín

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic ثُمُنِ (ṯumuni, of one-eighth). Doublet of tomín and azumbre. Cognate with Portuguese celamim and Galician celamín.

Noun

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celemín m (plural celemines)

  1. (historical) celemin (a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 4.6 liters)
  2. (historical) celemin (a traditional unit of land area vaguely reckoned as the amount of land that could be sown with a celemin of seed)
  3. (historical) celemin (a traditional unit of land area formalized as equivalent to about 537 m²)

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References

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  • Esther Vivancos Mulero (2010) “Estudio de los nombres de las medidas agrarias antiguas de la región de Murcia”, in Revista Murgetana[1] (in Spanish), volume 122, pages 228–229

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