juger
(ˈdʒuːdʒə(r))
[ad. L. juger-um. (Formerly used in Lat. form, with pl. jugera.)]
An ancient Roman measure of land, containing 28,800 (Roman) square feet, or 240 by 120 (Roman) feet, i.e. about three-fifths of an acre.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. cxxix. (1495) 937 Iugerum is two hundryd fote and fourty in length and syxe score fete in brede, and two Actus makyth Iugerum. 1579–80 North Plutarch (1612) 594 (Stanf.), [20,000] Iugera of land. 1600 Holland Livy (Summ. Mar. i. i.) 1348 A valley..in breadth foure jugera. 1853 Merivale Rom. Rep. i. (1867) 10 He allowed these claimants to retain in possession five hundred jugers each. 1881 Blackie Lay Serm. v. 169 Two jugers of land were allotted to each [Roman] citizen. |