单词 | drachma |
释义 | drachman. 1. a. = drachm n. 1. Also, the Jewish quarter-shekel. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > classical coins > [noun] > ancient Greek obolOE drachmc1384 mnamc1400 dramc1440 mina1495 groat1526 didrachm1548 drachma1579 obolus1579 tetradrachm1579 obole1598 philippic1651 stater1685 tetrobol1693 tridrachm1771 pentadrachm1827 triobol1837 octadrachm1848 decadrachm1856 lepton1877 dodecadrachm1881 diobol1887 trihemiobol1887 distater1895 hemiobol1921 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 490 Small peeces of money..called Oboli, whereof six make a Drachma. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 313 A Dragma is the fourth part of a Sickle, which is to saie fiue halfe-pence. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. x. §3. 381 Iudas Machabæus..sent thence ten thousand Dragmas. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. ii. 237 To euery seuerall man, seuenty fiue Drachmaes . View more context for this quotation 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 535. ¶7 He left him to the value of an hundred Drachmas in Persian Mony. 1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 178 Every one of the hoplites..received two drachmae a day. b. The standard silver coin of modern Greece prior to the adoption of the euro (Euro n.2 1a) in January 2001. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Greek coins lepton1728 hekte1872 drachma1882 drach1935 1882 R. Bithell Counting-house Dict. (1893) 196. 2. = drachm n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > drachm or dram drachma1398 dramc1440 drachma1527 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Dj Myxced with Bolo Armeno and with lapide ematitis, of eche a dragma. 1632 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. Iron Age sig. K2 [They] Will scarce weigh eleauen Dragmaes. 1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca v. xxvi. 551 Grecian weights reduced to..Troy weight: Drachma = 6 dwt. 222/ 49 grains. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1527 |
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