- ἄρουρα
- plowed fields
- 1. tilled or arable land, seed-land, cornland , Lat. arvum, and in pl. corn-lands, fields , [8th/7th c.BC]: then, generally, land, earth , [8th/7th c.BC]; πατρὶς ἄρουρα father land , [8th/7th c.BC]
2. metaph. of a woman as bearing children , [6th/5th c.BC, Refs 5th c.BC]
3. a measure of land in Egypt, nearly = the Roman jugerum , [Refs 5th c.BC] (ML)