juger

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an ancient Roman unit of land area equal to 28,800 square Roman feet, about 0.25 hectare or 0.62 acre

   The allotment measured five hundred jugers, the maximum named in the agrarian law.

Borrowed from Latin iuger or iugerum, from iugum, 'yoke.' The area was traditionally associated with the amount a yoked team of oxen could plough in a day. English dictionaries head juger; jugerum is an alternative singular, and jugera is the Latin plural used by Adam Smith.

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