Azumbre
The (the) Azumbre , also Açumbre, was a Spanish measure of volume for liquids. The term comes from the Arabic word ṯumun /ثُمُن('Eighth') or with the agglutinated article al-ṯumun /الثُمُن, pronounced aṯ-ṯumun due to the distinction between the sun and moon letters .
For example, a Cantara / Cantaro in Santana and Málaga had 8 azumbre.
- San Sebastian : 1 azumbre = 2.52 liters
- Valencia : 1 Azumbre = 2 1/15 liters or 2.016 liters
- 1 Azumbre = 4 Cuartillo = 16 Copas
A dimensional chain was
- 1 Arroba major / Cantara = 4 Quartilla = 8 Azumbre = 32 Quartillo = 128 Copa in the Kingdom of Spain for wine 16.133 liters; in Cuba for liquids 15.5 liters
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Otto Lueger: Lexicon of the entire technology and its auxiliary sciences. Volume 1, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1904., p. 75.
- ^ Ezra S. Winslow: The computist's manual of facts, and merchant's and mechanic's calculator and guide. published by the author, Boston 1855, p. 41.
- ↑ Jacob Heinrich Kaltschmidt : The latest and most complete foreign dictionary to explain all words and expressions borrowed from foreign languages. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1870, p. 94.
- ^ Pierer's Universal Lexicon . Volume 1, Altenburg 1857, p. 106.
- ^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 607.
- ^ Isaac Smith Homans Jr .: A cyclopedia of commerce and commercial navigation. Harper & Brothers, New York 1859, p. 1951.
- ↑ a b Eduard D. Praesicke: Der Oesterreichische Rechenmeister: or the art of learning to solve quickly and safely all arithmetic tasks that occur in all classes and in all cases of civil life and public transport in 30 hours; a book for everyone; with detailed coin, measure and weight tables and over 5000 tasks. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1858, pp. 261, 293.