Moio

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The moio , also moyo and mojo , was a measure of volume in Portugal and Brazil . As a grain measure it corresponded to a butcher. The moio had small deviations when calculating from the preferred alqueire as a practical measure. In the case of grain and salt , trading was canceled, and Moio was traded equally.

The dimensional chain was

  • 1 moio = 15 fangas / fanegas = 60 alqueires = 120 meios alqueires (half alqueires) = 240 quarras / quarter = 480 oitavas / eighth = 960 meias oitavas / half eighth (sixteenth) / salamins = 1920 maquias

Brazil

In Rio de Janeiro , the Alqueiro was 13.5 liters, or 681 Paris cubic inches .

  • 1 moio = 40,860 Parisian cubic inches = 810.5146 liters

Portugal

  • 1 moio = 40,858.2549 Parisian cubic inches = 810.48 liters (Portugal, general)
  • Lisbon 1 moio = 830.46 liters (Alqueire = 13.841 liters)

In Porto or Oporto, an Oporter Alqueire with 830 Parisian cubic inches was 16.4642 liters and was therefore

  • 1 moio = 60 alqueiras (Oporto) = 49,800 Parisian cubic inches = 987.852 liters

There were deviations taking into account the goods:

  • Raw lime 1 moio = 30 alqueiras = 405.24 liters = ½ grain moio
  • Slaked lime 1 moio = 50 alqueiras = 675.4 liters

Cape Verde Islands

  • 1 Moio = 52 Alqueiras (size corresponding to that of Rio de Janeiro, see above)

literature

  • Anton Wach: Non-profit building advisor for all work and material calculations in the building industry. Friedrich Lempsky, Prague 1863.
  • Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Hoffmann: General encyclopedia for merchants, manufacturers, business people, or complete dictionary on trade, factories, manufactures, arts and Business. Volume 2, Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1848, p. 586
  2. ^ Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 510
  3. ^ Theodor Friedrich Schrader: The most important of the exchange rates, the coinage and the measures and weights. Julius Klinkhardt, Leipzig 1854, p. 28