tonelada

• tonnelada (chiefly for the Portuguese unit)

From Portuguese and Spanish tonelada, from tonel (“tun”) + -ada (“-ful”), from Old French tonel (“little tun, cask”), from tone + -el (“-elle: forming diminutives”), from Late Latin tunna (“tun”), from Proto-Celtic *tunna (“hide, skin”).

tonelada (plural toneladas)

1. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 920 kg.
2. (historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, equivalent to about 793 kg.

• (Spanish unit): Spanish ton, ton (Spanish contexts)
• (Portuguese unit): Portuguese ton, ton (Portuguese contexts)

• (Spanish unit): libra (1/2000 tonelada), arroba (1/80 tonelada), quintal (1/20 tonelada)
• (Portuguese unit): arratel (1/1728 tonelada), arroba (1/54 tonelada), quintalejo (1/27 tonelada), quintal (2/27 tonelada)

From tonel (“tun”) +‎ -ada (“-ful”), from Old French tonel (“little tun, cask”), from tone + -el (“-elle: forming diminutives”), from Late Latin tunna (“tun”), from Proto-Celtic *tunna (“hide, skin”). Cognate with Portuguese and Spanish tonelada.

tonelada f (plural toneladas)

1. metric ton, a unit of mass equal to exactly 1000 kg
2. English or American ton, a unit of mass equivalent to about 907 kg
3. (historical) tonelada, Spanish ton, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 920 kg

• (metric unit): tonelada métrica, megagramo

• tonnelada (obsolete)

From tonel (“tun”) +‎ -ada (“-ful”), from Old Portuguese tonel, from Old French tonel (“little tun, cask”), from tone + -el (“-elle: forming diminutives”), from Late Latin tunna (“tun”), from Proto-Celtic *tunna (“hide, skin”). In reference to the English unit, calqued from English ton. Doublet of tunel. Cognate with Galician and Spanish tonelada.

• Hyphenation: to‧ne‧la‧da

tonelada f (plural toneladas)

1. metric ton, a unit of mass equal to 1000 kg
2. English or American ton, a unit of mass equal to 20 hundredweight, 2240 or 2000 pounds
3. (historical) tonelada, a traditional unit of mass, usually equivalent to 793 kg
4. caskful, a notional unit of mass indicating the full contents of any tun, cask, &c.

• (metric unit): megagrama, tonelada métrica

• (metric unit): miligrama (0.001 g), grama (1 g), decagrama (0.01 kg), hectograma (0.1 kg), quilograma (1 kg), miriagrama (10 kg), quintal métrico (100 kg)
• (English unit): libra (¹⁄₂₂₄₀ or ¹⁄₂₀₀₀ tonelada)
• (Portuguese unit): arrátel (¹⁄₁₇₂₈ tonelada), arroba (¹⁄₅₄ tonelada), quintalejo (¹⁄₂₇ tonelada), quintal (²⁄₂₇ tonelada)

• tonel
• tonelagem

From tonel (“tun”) +‎ -ada (“-ful”), from Old French tonel (“little tun, cask”), from tone + -el (“-elle: forming diminutives”), from Late Latin tunna (“tun”), from Proto-Celtic *tunna (“hide, skin”). In reference to the English unit, calqued from English ton. Cognate with Galician and Portuguese tonelada.

• IPA^(key): /toneˈlada/ [t̪o.neˈla.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: to‧ne‧la‧da

tonelada f (plural toneladas)

1. metric ton, a unit of mass equal to exactly 1000 kg

   Synonyms: tonelada métrica, megagramo

2. English or American ton, a unit of mass equivalent to about 907 kg
3. (historical) tonelada, Spanish ton, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 920 kg

• (English unit): libra (1/2000 tonelada)
• (Spanish unit): libra (1/2000 tonelada), arroba (1/80 tonelada), quintal (1/20 tonelada)

• “tonelada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Spanish tonelada (“ton”).

• Hyphenation: to‧ne‧la‧da
• IPA^(key): /toneˈlada/, [to.neˈla.dɐ]

tonelada

1. ton (unit of weight)

• tone-tonelada

• tonelahe