dragma

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdraɡ.ma/, [ˈd̪räɡmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdraɡ.ma/, [ˈd̪räɡmä]

Noun

dragma f (genitive dragmae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) drachma (coin)

Declension

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

• → Old French: dragme, drame
  • → English: dram
    • → Danish: dram
      • → Faroese: drammur
      • → Norwegian: dram
    • → Scottish Gaelic: dràm
  • French: drachme
    • → English: drachme, drachm
    • → German: Drachme
  • Norman: dranme
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: drama
• → Old Spanish: dragma

References

• “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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɾaɡma/

Noun

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.