estado

country, land (any broad area or territory); alternative letter-case form of Estado (“state, a territory with a formally recognized sovereign government; administration, its government”); state (a province, particularly a fairly autonomous one within a federation); state, status (a condition); estado, Spanish fathom (a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 167 cm)

Inherited from Latin status (“state, status, standing”). As a unit of length, from the distance approximating the height of a grown man. Doublet of estatus. Cognate with English state.