virgateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed from Latin virgāta, "yard" compared to "virga" as a measuring rod. Doublet of vergée.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /vɜɹˈɡeɪt/, /ˈvɝɡət/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈvɜːɡət/
• 韻: (米国発音) -eɪt

名詞

virgate (plural virgates)

1. (historical) The yardland: an obsolete English land measure usually comprising ⁄₄ of a hide and notionally equal to 30 acres.

使用する際の注意点

The hide was originally intended to represent the amount of land farmed by a single household but was primarily connected to obligations owed to the Saxon and Norman kings and thus varied greatly from place to place. Around the time of the Domesday Book under the Normans, the hide was usually but not always the land expected to produce £1 (1 Tower pound of sterling silver) in income over the year, meaning the yardland was expected to produce five shillings (3 Tower ounces of sterling silver). In fact, the yardland became associated with its own obligations and thus also varied, in some places being reckoned as ⁄₆ of a hide rather than ⁄₄. Virgate is a later retronym used to distinguish the unit from the yard of 3 feet.

同意語

• yardland, yard, yard of land

上位語

• (400 virgates) See hundred
• (4 virgates) See carucate

下位語

• (⁄₂ virgate & for Scottish divisions): See oxgang
• (⁄₄ virgate): See nook
• (⁄₈ virgate): See fardel
• (various & for further subdivisions): See acre

語源 2

Borrowed from Latin virgātus.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈvɝɡət/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈvɜːɡət/

形容詞

virgate (not comparable)

1. Rod-shaped: straight, long, and thin, (particularly botany) the habitus of plants with straight, erect branches.
2. (mycology) Finely striped, often with dark fibers.

関連する語

アナグラム

• vitrage