drachma
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ). Doublet of dram, diram, dirham, dirhem, and adarme.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
drachma (plural drachmas or drachmae or drachmai)
- The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro.
- 2008, Philip Matyszak, Ancient Athens on Five Drachmas a Day (title of the book)[1]
- A coin worth one drachma.
- An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams.
- A later Greek weight equal to a gram.
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currency
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coin
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Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdrakʰ.ma/, [ˈd̪räkʰmä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdrak.ma/, [ˈd̪räkmä]
Noun edit
drachma f (genitive drachmae); first declension
- (Classical Latin) drachma (Ancient Greek coin, one hundredth of a mina)
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | drachma | drachmae |
Genitive | drachmae | drachmārum |
Dative | drachmae | drachmīs |
Accusative | drachmam | drachmās |
Ablative | drachmā | drachmīs |
Vocative | drachma | drachmae |
Descendants edit
- ⇒ Late Latin: dragma
- → Armenian: դրախմա (draxma)
- → Belarusian: дра́хма (dráxma)
- → Bulgarian: дра́хма (dráhma)
- → Catalan: dracma, drama
- → Czech: drachma
- → English: drachma
- → Faroese: drakma
- → Finnish: drakma
- → Galician: dracma
- → Gothic: 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌼𐌰 (drakma)
- → Italian: dracma, dramma
- → Macedonian: драхма (drahma)
- → Portuguese: dracma
- → Russian: дра́хма (dráxma)
- → Serbo-Croatian: дра̀хма (dràhma)
- → Spanish: dracma
- → Ukrainian: дра́хма (dráxma)
References edit
- “drachma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “drachma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- drachma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “drachma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “drachma”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin