nummus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin nummus. Doublet of luma. === Noun === nummus (plural nummi) (historical) Any of a range of low-value copper coins issued by the Roman and Byzantine empires during Late Antiquity. == Latin == === Alternative forms === nūmus === Etymology === From Doric Greek νοῦμμος (noûmmos), a cognate of Attic Greek νόμος (nómos). Compare with numerus, from the same root. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈnʊm.mʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈnum.mus] === Noun === nummus m (genitive nummī); second declension a coin, piece of money ==== Usage notes ==== Some works ascribe this name to a particular Roman coin, such as the sesterce, but it is unclear which coin was ever known by this name in Latin. In Classical Latin, the genitive plural is usually nummum when used with a form of mīlle (“thousand”), nummōrum elsewhere; rare exceptions occur. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (alternative genitive plural in -um). ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “nummus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “nummus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "nummus", 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) “nummus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “nummus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “nummus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin