virgata

• virgāta: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯irˈɡaː.ta/,
• virgāta: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /virˈɡa.ta/,
• virgātā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯irˈɡaː.taː/,
• virgātā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /virˈɡa.ta/,

A calque of the Old English gerd (“branch, rod, yard, yardland”) formed from virga + -āta

virgāta f (genitive virgātae); first declension

1. The yardland or virgate, an English land measure usually comprising ¼ of a hide and notionally equal to 30 acres.

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 60 d. (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 one sixth of a hide rather than one quarter.

First-declension noun.

• English: virgate

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

virgāta

1. inflection of virgātus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

virgātā

1. ablative feminine singular of virgātus

• virgata in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)