kortteli

Finnish

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Definitions
  • block, city block group of buildings in a city or town, demarcated by streets
  • block distance from one street to another in a city
  • (historical) Scandinavian unit of length, which equalled half a foot or one fourth of a kyynärä = 0.148 meters
  • (historical) Russian unit of length, which equalled 0.1778 meters
  • (historical) unit of volume, which equalled 0.32715 liters
  • (dialectal) mug of roughly this volume

Etymology

Derived from Swedish kvartel derived from Middle Low German kwartēl derived from Latin quartārium (fourth part), quārtus (fourth).

Origin

Latin

quārtus

Gloss

fourth

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