drachme

See also: Drachme

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French drachme.

Noun

drachme (plural drachmes)

1. Dated form of drachma.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “drachme”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• charmed, decharm, demarch, marched

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French

Etymology

From Old French dragme, from Late Latin dragma, etymologically reconstructed to match Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ, “unit of weight; a handful”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

drachme f (plural drachmes)

1. drachma
2. dram (unit of weight)

Descendants

• → English: drachme, drachm
• → German: Drachme

Further reading

• “drachme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.