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medida.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
medida.
Principal English Translation: 

measurement
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

sentensia y medidas (heading) (Azcapotzalco, 1738)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 17.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

"Tenían las casas de longitud... cuatrocientas y once medidas y media, que reducidas a nuestra medida hacen mil doscientas treinta y cuatro varas y media, y de latitud... trescientas ventiséis medidas que hacen novecientas y setenta y ocho varas. La doble proporción establecida se refiere claramente a 'medidas' indígenas y varas españolas, exactamente 3 varas por 'medida'; y siendo las varas equivalentes a 0.8359 m, el valor de cada 'medida' indígena resulta entonces igual a 2.5027 m.
Víctor M. Castillo F., "Unidades nahuas de medida," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 213.

themes: 
Measurements, Quantities