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tonelada.

metric ton, a unit of mass equal to 1000 kg

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Meaning & usage

noun/to.neˈla.dɐ/Brazil/tu.nɨˈla.dɐ/Portugal[tu.nɨˈla.ðɐ]Portugal/tu.nɨˈla.dɐ/Portugal, Southern
  1. metric ton, a unit of mass equal to 1000 kg

    feminine
  2. British or American ton, a unit of mass equal to 20 hundredweight, 2,240 or 2,000 pounds

    feminine
  3. tonelada, a traditional unit of mass, usually equivalent to 793 kg

    feminine · historical
  4. caskful, a notional unit of mass indicating the full contents of any tun, cask, &c.

    feminine
Where this word comes from

From tonel (“tun”) + -ada (“-ful”), from Old Galician-Portuguese tonel, from Old French tonel (“little tun, cask”), from tone + -el (“-elle: forming diminutives”), from Late Latin tunna (“tun”), from Proto-Celtic *tunna (“hide, skin”). In reference to the English unit, calqued from English ton. Doublet of tunel. Cognate with Galician and Spanish tonelada.

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