polegada.
American or English inch, a unit of length equal to 2.54 cm
Meaning & usage
American or English inch, a unit of length equal to 2.54 cm
polegada, Portuguese inch, a historical unit of length about equal to 2.8 cm
square polegada, a historical unit of area about equal to 7.8 cm²
cubic polegada, a historical unit of volume about equal to 22 cm³, particularly used in measuring timber
Where this word comes from
From Old Galician-Portuguese polegada, from Vulgar Latin *pollicāta, unit of length derived from Latin pollex (“thumb”). Compare Galician and Spanish pulgada. As an English unit, a calque of English inch.
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