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单词 drachma
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drachman.

Brit. /ˈdrakmə/, U.S. /ˈdrɑkmə/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s dragma. Plural drachmas, also drachmæ, (1500s–1600s drachmaes).
Etymology: < Latin drachma, < Greek δραχμή drachm n. The form dragma is assimilated to Old French dragme, Provençal dragma, medieval Latin dragma.
1.
a. = drachm n. 1. Also, the Jewish quarter-shekel.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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