Cabida

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Cabida was the yardstick as the Portuguese measure of length .

Different terms stood for the measure: Cobido , Cobit , Cabido , Cavido Cobdi and Cobre . In Portugal this cubit had a different length than in trade with the East Indies . The measure is the same as the Covid , other designations indicate it.

  • Lisbon 1 Cabida = 1 Amsterdam cubit = 2 feet (Amsterdam) = 0.68781 meters
  • Trade 1 ½ Cobido / Cabida = 1 Amsterdam cubit

literature

  • New Hamburg magazine, or continuation of collected writings from nature research, general urban and rural economics and the pleasant sciences in general. Volume 62, Hermann Heinrich Holle, Leipzig 1772, p. 141.
  • Johann Karl Gottfried Jacobsson: Technological Dictionary . Part 1, Friedrich Nicolai, Berlin / Stettin 1781, p. 372.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Georg Krünitz , Friedrich Jakob Floerken, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Carl Otto Hoffmann, Ludwig Kossarski: Economic Encyclopedia. Volume 8, Joachim Pauli Buchhandlung, Berlin 1776, p. 197.