Latin

Alternative forms

• jūgerum

Noun

iūgerum n ‎(variously declined, genitive iūgerī); second declension, third declension

1. jugerum
   • ante 27 BC, M. Terentius Varro, Res Rusticae in Libri De Re Rustica (1514), bk I, ch. x, p. 29a:

     ILLE. Modos, ꝗbus metirentur rura, alius alios conſtituit. Na᷄ in Hiſpania ulteriore metiuntur iugis, in campania uerſibus, apud nos in agro Romano, ac latino iugeris.

Declension

Second–third-declension hybrid neuter.

¹Once only, in:
M. Terentius Varro, Res Rusticae, bk I, ch. x

Synonyms

• iūger
• iūgerus

Descendants

• French: jugère
• Italian: iugero
• Romanian: iugăr

References

• iugerum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• iugerum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “iugerum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• iugerum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers