Palmipes
The palmipes was a Roman measure of length and is considered a compound measure. So it should have a geometric foot plus a palm , about a foot and a quarter or 20 digiti ("finger width").
- 1 palmipes = 5 hand widths corresponded to about 37 centimeters
As a noun, the term occurs only in Vitruvius , while Pliny uses the word adjectival. Usually palmipedalis was used as an adjective.
literature
- Peter Kurzweil: The Vieweg unit dictionary. Friedrich Vieweg and Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-528-06987-2 , p. 309.
- Daniel Sanders: Foreign dictionary. Volume 2, Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1871, p. 161.
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Otto Hultsch: Greek and Roman metrology. Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1862, p. 61 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Vitruvius 5,6,3
- ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 17.20 (143)
- ↑ Varro , De re rustica 2.4; Vitruvius 10,20,3; Columella , De re rustica 3.19.