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‖ drachma|ˈdrækmə|
Also 6–7 dragma. Pl. -mas, also -mæ, (6–7 -maes).
[a. L. drachma, a. Gr. δραχµή drachm. The form dragma is assimilated to OF. dragme, Pr. and med.L. dragma.]
1. = drachm 1. Also, the Jewish quarter-shekel.
1579–80North Plutarch 378 (R.) Small pieces of money.. called oboli, whereof six made a drachma. 1581Marbeck Bk. Notes 313 A Dragma is the fourth part of a Sickle, which is to saie fiue halfe-pence. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. iii. ii. 247 To euery seuerall man, seuenty fiue Drachmaes. 1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. (1634) 322 Judas Macchabeus..sent thence ten thousand Dragmas. 1712Addison Spect. No. 535 ⁋7 He left him to the value of an hundred drachmas in Persian money. 1881Jowett Thucyd. I. 178 Every one of the hoplites..received two drachmae a day.
b. The standard silver coin of modern Greece, equivalent to the French franc and Italian lira.
1882Bithell Counting-ho. Dict. (1893) 196.
2. = drachm 2.
1527Andrew Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters Dj, Myxced with Bolo Armeno and with lapide ematitis, of eche a dragma. 1632Heywood 2nd Pt. Iron Age v. Wks. 1874 III. 426 [They] Will scarce weigh eleauen Dragmaes. 1807Robinson Archæol. Græca v. xxvi. 551 Grecian weights reduced to..Troy weight: Drachma = 6 dwt. 222/49 grains. |