gomor

French

Noun

gomor m (plural gomors)

1. omer (measure)

Further reading

• “gomor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

From the Vulgate transcription of Ancient Greek γομόρ (gomór) in the Septuagint, from Biblical Hebrew עומר (“sheaf; unit of dry measure”).

Noun

gomor n (indeclinable)

1. (historical units of measure) omer, a unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L.

Descendants

• → English: gomer

References

• gomor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)