tonelada.
metric ton, a unit of mass equal to 1000 kg
Meaning & usage
metric ton, a unit of mass equal to 1000 kg
British or American ton, a unit of mass equal to 20 hundredweight, 2,240 or 2,000 pounds
tonelada, a traditional unit of mass, usually equivalent to 793 kg
caskful, a notional unit of mass indicating the full contents of any tun, cask, &c.
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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