celemin
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 4.6 liters.
noun
A traditional Spanish unit of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land that could be sown with a celemin of seed.
noun
A traditional Spanish unit of land area, formalized as equivalent to about 537 m².
Etymology
From Spanish celemín, from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic ثُمُنِ (ṯumuni, “of one-eighth”). Doublet of tomin and azumbre.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: celemín, -, ثُمُنِ