groat
See also: Groat
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɹoʊt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡɹəʊt/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (obsolete) IPA(key): /ɡɹɔːt/[1]
- Rhymes: -əʊt
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English grot, from Old English grot, from Proto-West Germanic *grot, from Proto-Germanic *grutą, related to *greutą. More at grit, grout.
Noun edit
groat (countable and uncountable, plural groats)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
hulled grain
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Etymology 2 edit
Possibly from Middle Dutch groot, the Old French gros Tournois (“a coin of Tours”), from Medieval Latin denarius (“coin”) grossus (“large”). Related to German Groschen.
Noun edit
groat (plural groats)
- (archaic or historical) Any of various old coins of England and Scotland.
- 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
- The Widdow that hath but a pan of braſſe,
And ſcarſe a houſe to hide her head,
Sometimes no penny to buy her bread,
Muſt pay her Landlord many a groat,
Or twil be puld out of her throat:
- A historical English silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins.
- c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act I:
- The needy groom, that never finger'd groat,
Would make a miracle of thus much coin …
- A proverbial small sum; a whit or jot.
Translations edit
English silver four penny coin
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See also edit
- Groat (grain) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Groat (coin) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References edit
- ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)[1], volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 10.81, page 315.