dessiatina
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Etymology
From Russian десяти́на (desjatína, “tenth, tithe”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dessiatina (plural dessiatinas or dessiatiny)
- A Russian measure of land, roughly 1.1 hectares.
- 1849 July, “The Observatory at Pulkowa”, in The North American Review, volume 69, number 144:
- 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.
- 1918, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Aylmer and Louise Maude, Anna Karenina, Oxford, published 1998, page 166:
- I go shooting there every year, and it is worth five hundred roubles a desyatina cash down, and he is paying you two hundred on long term.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
- Clouds, some in very clear profile, black and jagged, sail in armadas towards the Asian arctic, above the sweeping dessiatinas of grasses […]
- 1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society, published 2013, page 119:
- The average peasant allotment, at 2.6 dessyatiny in 1900, was comparable in size to the typical smallholding in France or Germany.
Translations
a Russian measure of land
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