nomisma

== English == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma). Per Oxford Dictionary, the Online Etymology Dictionary, and Merriam Webster, money or currency, from Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma), for current money, coin, usage, lit. "what has been sanctioned by custom or use," from νομίζω (nomízō, “to use customarily”), itself from νόμος (nómos), usage or custom, omitting -ίζειν) and adding -ισμα. Related to French numismatique, from Late Latin numisma (“coin”), variant of Latin nomisma, as noted, from Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /nə(ʊ)ˈmɪzmə/ === Noun === nomisma (plural nomismata or nomismas) Money or currency (modern). Coinage, especially with connotation as a means to control a monetary system (rare). Current coin of a state (ancient). (rare) Coinage, a monetary system. (historical) A byzant. A stamp, an image on a coin. ==== Usage notes ==== Per Oxford Dictionary, earliest use by William Camden, so early 17th century. Prud. στεφ. 2, 95 Archimedes Project, Harvard University en Caesar agnoscit suum Nomisma nummis inditum ==== Related terms ==== See numismatics (via numisma), and other derived and related terms there. === See also === pecunia === References === == Latin == === Alternative forms === numisma nummisma === Etymology === From Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma, “coin; currency”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [nɔˈmɪs.ma] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [noˈmiz.ma] === Noun === nomisma n (genitive nomismatis); third declension coin; coinage ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). === References === “nomisma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “nomisma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "nomisma", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)