noun, masculine/kaˈiθ/plural: cahíces
cahiz (a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 665.8 liters); cahiz (a traditional unit of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a cahiz of seed)
Inherited from Old Spanish cafiz, from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic قَفِيز (qafīz). Cognate with Ancient Greek καπίθη (kapíthē), Catalan cahís, and Galician and Portuguese cacifo.