| 单词 | roman foot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasRoman foot Roman foot n. now historical the Roman unit of length of a pes, generally taken as equal to about 11.7 inches (approx. 296 millimetres). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > stadium (ancient Greek or Roman unit) > ancient Roman units mileeOE actusa1398 Roman foot1538 Roman mile1627 sextula1656 1538 T. Elyot Dict. (at cited word) The fote of the squire vsed by our Carpentars is shorter than the Romayne foote of Budeus one ynche, soo that it conteyneth xv. fyngers. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 655 The hornes of this Strepsiceros are..long, about two Roman feet and three palmes. 1761 Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 774 An Enquiry into the Measure of the Roman Foot. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 210/1 Taking the Roman foot at 11.62 English inches, the original Roman mile was therefore 1614 yards. 1911 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 1 182 Oblong buildings 90 metres, i.e. 300 Roman feet long. 1987 Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 46 271/2 The standard Roman foot was 0.295 meters. 2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) vii. 246 Between 1200 and 1255, Norwegian builders abandoned their previous unit of linear measurement (the so-called international Roman foot) and adopted the shorter Greek foot. < as lemmas |
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