arpent

From French, from Late Latin *arepennis (“surface of a field”), from Gaulish *are-penno- (“end, extremity of a field”).

arpent (plural arpents)

1. A pre-metric French unit of length, having various official measures.
2. A pre-metric French unit of area, having various official measures.

• -pteran, Parten, enrapt, entrap, panter, parent, trepan

From Late Latin *arepennis (“surface of a field”), from Gaulish *are-penno- (“end, extremity of a field”).

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.pɑ̃/
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃
• Homophone: arpents

arpent m (plural arpents)

1. arpent
   • 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:

     Sa curiosité et son extravagance arrivèrent à ce point qu’il vendit plusieurs arpents de bonnes terres à labourer pour acheter des livres de chevalerie à lire.

     His curiosity and his extravagance came to the point that he sold several arpents of good working land to buy books of chivalry to read.

• “arpent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• parent, râpent