In the Middle Ages, “the smallest grain measure in Genoa”= 1/96 mina, about 1.25 liters. Also spelled gombetta, gambetta and cambetta.
Edler,
page 207, in the entry on Pedaggio della gombetta.
Doursther, pages 159, 455.
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