Donum Definition

noun
A unit of area used for land measurement in the Near East and usually equal to 1,000 square meters.
American Heritage
A unit of area used for land measurement in Iraq and equal to 2,500 square meters.
American Heritage

Origin of Donum

  • Ultimately (partly via Arabic dūnum) from Turkish dönüm a turning, a returning, donum from dönmek to turn (in reference to the turning of oxen back and forth when plowing a field, a donum originally being the amount of land that a pair of oxen could plow in a day)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Donum Sentence Examples

  • The Church Act of 186g which disestablished and disendowed the Irish Episcopal Church took away the Presbyterian regium donum.

  • But his career there was in 1832 suddenly cut short by difficulties growing out of the " regium donum," which had on the death of the senior minister fallen to him.

  • The oke, equalling 2.8 lb avoirdupois, and the donum, about 4 of an acre, are the chief units.

  • The ministers are supported by a sustentation fund formed of voluntary contributions, the rents of seats and pews, and the proceeds of the commutation of the Regium Donum made by the commissioners under the Irish Church Act 1869.

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Words Starting With

DDODON

Words Ending With

MUMNUM

Unscrambles

donum

Words Starting With D and Ending With M

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