hemina

plural heminas · plural heminae

1. historicalA Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of ⁵⁄₆ Roman pound of wine, equivalent to around 0.27 L.

   ...an Æginean Hemina of Hydromel ...

   1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations

   Synonyms: cotyle, half-sextarius

plural heminas · plural heminae

1. One of two traditional Spanish units of measure:
   1. historicalA unit of dry measure, equivalent to around 23 liters.
   2. historicalA variable unit traditionally defined as the land area that could be sown by one (dry measure) hemina of seed; typically between 500 and 1,000 square metres in size, depending on the crop and local climate.