xylon

From Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon).

xylon (plural xyla)

1. (historical) A unit of length in Ancient Greece.
   • 2020, Roger S. Bagnall, Alexander Jones, Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts, page 81:

     The xylon, in which naubia are measured. The royal (xylon) 9 comprises 3 cubits, 18 palms, 72 fingers; 10 the private (xylon) comprises 2⅔ cubits, 16 palms, 64 fingers, so that the surveyor's schoinion comprises 32 royal xyla, and 36 private (xyla).

Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon).

xylon n (genitive xylī); second declension

1. cotton (plant)

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

• “xylon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• xylon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.