arura

Arura ({{langx|grc|ἄρουρα|aroura|}}) is a Homeric GreekIliad 11.68 word with original meaning "arable land", derived from the verb ἀρόω (aroō), "plough".[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Da%29ro%2Fw ἀρόω], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus The word was also used generally for earth, land and father-land and in plural to describe corn-lands and fields.[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Da%29%2Froura ἄρουρα], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus The term arura was also used to describe a measure of land in ancient Egypt (similar in manner to the acre), a square of 100 Egyptian cubits each way.[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hdt.+2.168&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0125 Herodotus, 2.168], on Perseus This measures 2700m² or 2/3 of an acre.[http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/economy/wages_and_prices.htm "Household economics: Making ends meet"] note 1. The oldest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek a-ro-u-ra, written in Linear B syllabic script, originally meant "plough".[http://www.palaeolexicon.com/default.aspx?static=12&wid=220 Palaeolexicon], Word study tool of ancient languages