polegada

• pollegada (historical)

From Portuguese polegada (“inch”), from Vulgar Latin *pollicāta, from Latin pollicāris (“of or related to a thumb”), from pollex (“thumb”) + -āris (“-ary: forming adjectives”).

polegada (plural polegadas)

1. (historical, measure) A traditional Portuguese unit of length, usually about equal to 2.8 cm.

• Portuguese inch, inch (in Portuguese contexts)

• (Portuguese unit): ponto (¹⁄₁₄₄ polegada), linha (¹⁄₁₂ polegada), grao (¹⁄₆ polegada), dedo (²⁄₃ polegada), palmo (8 polegadas), Portuguese foot (12 polegadas), covado (24 or 24+³⁄₄ polegadas), vara (40 polegadas), passo (60 polegadas), toesa (72 polegadas), braça (80 polegadas)

• pollegada (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese polegada, from Vulgar Latin *pollicāta, unit of length derived from Latin pollex (“thumb”). Compare Galician and Spanish pulgada. As an English unit, a calque of English inch.

• Hyphenation: po‧le‧ga‧da

polegada f (plural polegadas)

1. American or English inch, a unit of length equal to 2.54 cm
2. (historical) polegada, Portuguese inch, a historical unit of length about equal to 2.8 cm
3. (historical) square polegada, a historical unit of area about equal to 7.8 cm²
4. (historical) cubic polegada, a historical unit of volume about equal to 22 cm³, particularly used in measuring timber

• (English unit of length): pé (12 polegadas), jarda (36 polegadas)
• (Portuguese unit of length): ponto (¹⁄₁₄₄ polegada), linha (¹⁄₁₂ polegada), grão (¹⁄₆ polegada), dedo (²⁄₃ polegada), palmo (8 polegadas), pé (12 polegadas), côvado (24 or 24+³⁄₄ polegadas), vara (40 polegadas), passo (60 polegadas), toesa (72 polegadas), braça (80 polegadas)

• polegar