setier

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   any of several old French units of capacity or land area, whose value varied by region and commodity

   In the Paris grain trade, a setier of wheat contained twelve boisseaux.

Borrowed from Middle French setier or sestier, from Latin sextarius, a measure whose name derives from sextus, 'sixth.' Its value varied by place and substance; the Paris grain setier was twelve boisseaux, about 156 liters. Septier is an older spelling used by Adam Smith and in earlier French dictionaries.

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