Heredium
Heredia is a place-name and Heredia (surname), surname stemming from the singular Latin noun (plural: ). However, different evolution paths have been postulated for the word, even different origins. Hereditary land According to Belgian economist Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, the was "land transmitted hereditarily". The symbolized "the continuity between one generation of citizens and the next". In ''Apellidos vascos'', linguist Koldo Mitxelena postulates a similar ''heredium'' root for the surname and Heredia, Álava, village Heredia in the Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country, attested as Deredia for small place-names in Basque language, Basque, due to Prothesis (linguistics), prothesis, in the same way as Basque surname and place-name ''Gerediaga''. Other words related to include: * : the next heir. * : hereditament, all property that may be inherited. * : to cause to inherit. * : an inheritance. Unit of measurement A is also an Ancient Roman unit of ...
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Ancient Roman Unit Of Measurement
The ancient Roman units of measurement were primarily founded on the ancient Greek units of measurement, Hellenic system, which in turn was influenced by the ancient Egyptian units of measurement, Egyptian system and the Ancient Mesopotamian units of measurement, Mesopotamian system. The Ancient Rome, Roman units were comparatively consistent and well documented. Length The basic unit of Roman linear measurement was the ''pes'' or Roman foot (plural: ''pedes''). Investigation of its relation to the foot (unit), English foot goes back at least to 1647, when John Greaves published his ''Discourse on the Romane foot''. Greaves visited Rome in 1639, and measured, among other things, the foot measure on the tomb of Titus Statilius Aper, that on the statue of Cossutius formerly in the gardens of Angelo Colocci, the congius of Vespasian previously measured by Juan Bautista Villalpando, Villalpandus, a number of brass measuring-rods found in the ruins of Rome, the paving-stones of the Pan ...
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