arpent

Meaning

  1. A pre-metric French unit of length, having various official measures.
  2. A pre-metric French unit of area, having various official measures.

Etymology

From French arpent, from Late Latin arepennis (“surface of a field”), from Gaulish *are-penno- (“end, extremity of a field”) (see Proto-Celtic *Kʷennowindos).

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