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arpent

Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ)pənt/

The English word “arpent” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A premetric French unit of length, having various official measures (from 58 to 72 meters).
  2. A premetric French unit of area, having various official measures (from 3419 to 5107 square meters).

Etymology

From French arpent, from Late Latin arepennis (“surface of a field”), from Gaulish *are-penno- (“end, extremity of a field”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸarekʷennom.

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