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dessiatina

noun /dɛsjəˈtiːnə/

  1. A Russian measure of land, roughly 1.1 hectares.

    The tract of land given by the emperor contains five hundred and forty-five acres, (twenty dessjatines,) being two thousand two hundred and five feet long, and one thousand five hundred and eighty-two wide at its greatest breadth.

Where it comes from

From Russian десяти́на (desjatína, “tenth, tithe”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry dessiatina (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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