The corpus record — Latin

jugerum

an acre

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Thrasybulus 1 · 16.67/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 57 · 7.24/10k
In C. Verrem 13 · 1.29/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 1 · 0.94/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 1 · 0.76/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Naturalis Historia 25 · 0.63/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 42 1 · 0.6/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 1 · 0.59/10k
Philippicae 3 · 0.57/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 1 · 0.5/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

jūgĕrum — Lewis & Short

jūgĕrum, i (in

sing. acc. to the second, in plur. mostly acc. to the third declension;

I gen. plur. always jugerum; cf. Lachm. in Rhein. Mus. 1845, pp. 609-612), n., an acre, or rather juger of land, measuring 28,800 square feet, or 240 feet in length by 120 in breadth (whereas the English acre measures 43,560 square feet): in Hispania ulteriore metiuntur jugis, in Campania versibus, apud nos in agro Romano ac Latino jugeris, Varr. R. R. 1, 10: ex jugero decumano, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 47, § 113: is partes fecit in ripa, nescio quotenorum jugerum, id. Att. 12, 33: donare clientem Jugeribus paucis, Juv. 9, 60; 14, 163.

In the wild

iugerum Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.3.12
iugerum Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.113
iugerum Cornelius Nepos, Thrasybulus 4
iugeri Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.88.11
iugeri Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5.2.7
Iugerum Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.5.1

6 of 118 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.