Arura

Arura or (Greek: ἄρουρα), is a Homeric Greek[1] word with original meaning "arable land", derived from the verb ἀρόω (aroō), "plough".[2] The word was also used generally for earth, land and father-land and in plural to describe corn-lands and fields.[3] The term arura was also used to describe a measure of land in ancient Egypt (similar in manner to the acre), a square of 100 Egyptian cubits each way.[4] This measures 2700m² or 2/3 of an acre.[5] The oldest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek a-ro-u-ra, written in Linear B syllabic script, originally meant "plough".[6]

Other uses
gollark: It does help you with things, and people find it fun.
gollark: I like it because you don't have to worry about stuff like "units" and "error bars" and in many cases even "numbers".
gollark: You vaguely remind me of my former maths teacher, who seemed really weirdly enthusiastic about (some) maths.
gollark: However, gnobody, universities are not able to instantly teach maths[citation needed] so that is not *that* relevant. Although I suppose you'll probably like learning it full-time from very good mathers™ more, you can do SOME mathy stuff now.
gollark: You can just learn more maths now. You don't have to go to universities just to learn maths.

References
  1. Iliad 11.68
  2. ἀρόω, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
  3. ἄρουρα, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
  4. Herodotus, 2.168, on Perseus
  5. "Household economics: Making ends meet" note 1.
  6. Palaeolexicon, Word study tool of ancient languages
  • The dictionary definition of arura at Wiktionary
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