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单词 prutah
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prutah

/ˈpruːtə/
Now historical
noun
1A bronze coin issued in Palestine from about 200 b.c. into New Testament times, of the same weight as the Roman quadrans.
  • The value of the prutah seems to have varied in different periods, but it was the smallest denomination of coin in the indigenous monetary system..
2An aluminium coin issued in Israel between 1948 and 1960, of the value of 1/1000 of an Israeli pound.

Origin

Late 19th century; earliest use found in Frederic Farrar (1831–1903), dean of Canterbury, novelist, and philologist. From post-Biblical Hebrew pĕrūṭāh from pāraṭ to change money, to separate, to detach.

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