exergue
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exergue (plural exergues)
- (numismatics) A space beneath the main design on a coin or medal for the insertion of the date or other minor inscription.
- 1765, Philosophical Transactions, page 138:
- In farther eviction of what has been advanced, relative to the initial letters in the exergues of certain Sidonian coins; it may not be improper to observe, that a medal in my small collection exhibits the letter Hheth, immediately after the numerical inscription in the exergue.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson:
- In childhood I must have felt with the energy of a man what I now find stamped upon memory in lines as vivid, as deep, and as durable as the exergues of the Carthaginian medals.
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From Latin exergum, from Ancient Greek ἐξ (ex, “from, out of”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”).
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exergue m (plural exergues)
- (numismatics) exergue (space beneath the main design on a coin or medal for an inscription)
- (by extension) inscription
- epigraph
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- “exergue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.