1.85 cm or three inches (uncia) of about 2.47 cm. Three made a span (palmus maior or "greater palm") of about 22.2 cm; four, a Roman foot; five, a hand-and-a-foot (palmipes) of about 37 cm; six, a cubit (cubitus) of about 44.4 cm.

Continental Europe

The palms of medieval and early modern Europe--the Italian, Spanish,

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