Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Classical Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

dragma f (genitive dragmae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) drachma (coin)

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dragma dragmae
Genitive dragmae dragmārum
Dative dragmae dragmīs
Accusative dragmam dragmās
Ablative dragmā dragmīs
Vocative dragma dragmae

Descendants edit

References edit

  • dragma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dragma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Old Spanish edit

Etymology edit

From Late Latin dragma, from Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

dragma f (plural dragmas)

  1. drachma, dram (coin and unit of measure)
    • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 8v:
      […] si dierẽ del poluo della a beuer peſante de quatro dragmas al q̃ a dolor en el eſtentino a que llaman colon ſana luego.
      […] if they were to give four drams of weight of it powdered to drink to someone whose gut, the one they call colon, ached, he would be cured.
    • Idem, f. 79r.
      La ſegunda es q̃ ſi beuiere om̃e della peſo duna dragma purga melanconia temprada miente ⁊ bien.
      The second is that if one were to drink of it the weight of one dram, it purges black bile soon and well.