tonel.
tun (a large wooden barrel, a vat, a cask)
Meaning & usage
tun (a large wooden barrel, a vat, a cask)
tun (a traditional unit of liquid volume equal to 0.8–1 m³ depending on the part of Portugal)
Where this word comes from
From Old Galician-Portuguese tonel, from Old French tonel, from tone + -el (“-elle: forming diminutives”), from Late Latin tunna (“tun”), from Proto-Celtic *tunna (“hide, skin”). Doublet of tonelada. Cognate with Galician and Spanish tonel and Catalan tona.
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