Cassuk

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Cassuk , also Arsive / Acetabula, was an Arabic measure of volume and was used for liquid goods.

  • 1 Cassuk = 2 Cuathum = 8 Salgarin = 5 Parisian cubic inches ≈ 99.182 milliliters
  • 1 Dorach = 384 Cassuk / Arsive / Acetabula (Roman) = 1920 Parisian cubic inches ≈ 38.085 liters

The dimensional chain was

  • 1 Dorach = 8 Johein = 48 Kist / Ascat = 96 Corbin = 192 Keliath = 384 Cassuk / Arsive / Acetabula (Roman) = 768 Cuathum / Cyathos = 3072 Salgarin

literature

  • Ludwig Julius Friedrich Höpfner: German encyclopedia or general real dictionary of all arts. Volume 5, Varrentrapp and Wenner, Frankfurt am Main 1781, p. 273.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eduard Beer: The latest foreign dictionary for the Germanization and explanation of all non-German words, idioms, artistic expressions and abbreviations that occur in language and writing: With constant indication of their emphasis, pronunciation and ancestry, as well as the gender of the nouns. Volume 1, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar 1838, p. 563
  2. ↑ Carl Günther Ludovici, Johann Christian Schedel: Newly opened Academy of Merchants, or encyclopaedic merchant lexicon of everything worth knowing and non-profit in the broad areas of commercial science and commerce in general. Volume 2, Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1798, p. 1044.