Length
- Palmă (palm) - 1/8 of a stânjen
- Stânjen - 2 m (approximately)
- Palmac - 3.48 cm (Moldavia)
- Poştă - 8–20 km (depending on the country)
- Pas mic (small step) - 4 palme (Wallachia) (palme is the plural noun for palmă)
- Pas mare (large step) - 6 palme (Wallachia; Moldavia)
- Lat de palmă (palm width) - 1/2 palmă
- Cot (cubit) - 664 mm (Moldavia); 637 mm (Wallachia)
- Funie (rope) - 20–120 m (depending on the place)
- Leghe (league) - 4.444 km;
- Deget (finger) - the width of a finger
- Prăjină - 3 stânjeni (stânjeni is the plural noun for stânjen)
- Verstă - 1067 m (3,500 ft)
- Picior (foot) - 1/6 of a stânjen
Read more about this topic: Romanian Units Of Measurement
Famous quotes containing the word length:
“The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keep us from discovering the faults of our friends.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Baltimore lay very near the immense protein factory of Chesapeake Bay, and out of the bay it ate divinely. I well recall the time when prime hard crabs of the channel species, blue in color, at least eight inches in length along the shell, and with snow-white meat almost as firm as soap, were hawked in Hollins Street of Summer mornings at ten cents a dozen.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)