celemín
Spanish, noun[seleˈmĩn]
celemín is spelled C-E-L-E-M-Í-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish, the 150,504th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Celemín is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “celemin (a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 4.6 liters)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Porción de grano, semillas u otra cosa semejante, que llena exactamente un celemín₁”.
What does celemín mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecelemin (a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 4.6 liters)
- 2
masculinecelemin (a traditional unit of land area vaguely reckoned as the amount of land that could be sown with a celemin of seed)
- 3
masculinecelemin (a traditional unit of land area formalized as equivalent to about 537 m²)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Unidad de volumen antigua para granos y semillas, equivalente a 4,625 litros. 2. Porción de grano, semillas u otra cosa semejante, que llena exactamente un celemín₁. 3. Unidad de área antigua, equivalente a 537 metros cuadrados, que era considerado el espacio de terreno necesario para sembrar un celemín₁ de trigo. 4. Infinidad₁ (una cantidad incontable de cosas o personas).
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of celemín
- celemines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce celemín?
- [seleˈmĩn]
- [θeleˈmĩn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to celemín
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is celemín in Spanish?
celemín appears about once in every 17 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).