[ad. L. juger-um. (Formerly used in Lat. form, with pl. jugera.)] An ancient Roman measure of land, containing 28,800 (Roman) square feet, or 240 by 120 (Roman) feet, i.e., about three-fifths of an acre.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIX. cxxix. (1495), 937. Iugerum is two hundryd fote and fourty in length and syxe score fete in brede, and two Actus makyth Iugerum.
1579–80. North, Plutarch (1612), 594 (Stanf.). [20,000] Iugera of land.
1600. Holland, Livy (Summ. Mar., I. i.), 1348. A valley … in breadth foure jugera.
1853. Merivale, Rom. Rep., i. (1867), 10. He allowed these claimants to retain in possession five hundred jugers each.
1881. Blackie, Lay Serm., v. 169. Two jugers of land were allotted to each [Roman] citizen.
