“ The O. Fr. assis, assise, and Eng. “assize,” meant a sitting of a deliberative or other body; hence decree, ordinance of such a body, specifically of such as regulated weights, measures, prices; thus it came to mean a standard of measure price, quantity thus fixed, and so merely quantity or measure, in which sense it remains in the shortened form “size.” In the sense of an agglutinant, “size” is an adaptation of Ital. ”