denarius
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin dēnārius. Doublet of dinar.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
denarius (plural denarii or denariuses)
- (Ancient Rome) A small silver coin issued both during the Roman Republic and during the Roman Empire, equal to 10 asses or 4 sesterces.
- 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 146:
- "Sorry, I thought you were Aurel. He owes me a denarius. Have you seen him?"
Usage notes[edit]
- The usual plural is denarii, but denariuses is also well attested.
Translations[edit]
silver coin
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From dēnī (“ten each”) + -ārius.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈnaː.ri.us/, [d̪eːˈnaː.ɾi.ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈna.ri.us/, [d̪ɛˈnaː.ri.us]
Adjective[edit]
dēnārius (feminine dēnāria, neuter dēnārium); first/second-declension adjective
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | dēnārius | dēnāria | dēnārium | dēnāriī | dēnāriae | dēnāria | |
Genitive | dēnāriī | dēnāriae | dēnāriī | dēnāriōrum | dēnāriārum | dēnāriōrum | |
Dative | dēnāriō | dēnāriō | dēnāriīs | ||||
Accusative | dēnārium | dēnāriam | dēnārium | dēnāriōs | dēnāriās | dēnāria | |
Ablative | dēnāriō | dēnāriā | dēnāriō | dēnāriīs | |||
Vocative | dēnārie | dēnāria | dēnārium | dēnāriī | dēnāriae | dēnāria |
Noun[edit]
dēnārius m (genitive dēnāriī or dēnārī); second declension
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | dēnārius | dēnāriī |
Genitive | dēnāriī dēnārī1 |
dēnāriōrum |
Dative | dēnāriō | dēnāriīs |
Accusative | dēnārium | dēnāriōs |
Ablative | dēnāriō | dēnāriīs |
Vocative | dēnārie | dēnāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms[edit]
- 𐆖 (the symbol for the denarius)
Descendants[edit]
- Arabic: دِينار (dīnār) (borrowing through Syriac and Ancient Greek)
- Ancient Greek: δηνάριον (dēnárion) (borrowing, Koine and later)
- Aragonese: denario (borrowing), dinero
- Asturian: denariu (borrowing), dineru
- Catalan: denari (borrowing), diner
- Corsican: dinaru
- English: denier (through Old French), denar (through a South Slavic language), denary (borrowing through Middle English), dinar (through Arabic), denarius (direct borrowing)
- Esperanto: denaro (borrowing)
- French: dénaire (borrowing), denier
- Friulian: denâr
References[edit]
- denarius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- denarius in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- denarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- denarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- corn had gone up to 50 denarii the bushel: ad denarios L in singulos modios annona pervenerat
- corn had gone up to 50 denarii the bushel: ad denarios L in singulos modios annona pervenerat
- denarius in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- denarius in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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