denier

See also: dénier

English

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

From Old French denier, from Latin denarius.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dənî(r)', IPA^(key): /dəˈnɪə(r)/ (coin)
  
• enPR: dĕn'ĭə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈdɛnɪə(r)/ (unit of fineness of yarn)

• Audio (US) (yarn)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun

denier ‎(plural deniers)

1. (now historical) An old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou.
   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 117:

     A bronze denier bearing the inscription CONRADUS around a central cross, was minted in Lugdunum.

2. A unit of weight which indicates the fineness of fiber or yarn, equal to one gram per 9000 meters, used especially to measure or indicate the fineness of hosiery.
   • 2002, Jill Mansell, Staying at Daisy's:

     Upstairs she rummaged through her chest of drawers, finally unearthing an unopened pack of ten denier barely blacks.

Translations

coin

• Catalan: diner (ca) m
• Finnish: denier (fi)

• French: denier (fr) m
• Russian: денье́ (ru) n ‎(denʹjé)

unit of fineness of yarn

• Finnish: denier (fi)
• French: denier (fr) m

• Japanese: デニール ‎(denīru)
• Russian: денье́ (ru) n ‎(denʹjé)
• Swedish: denier (sv) c

See also

• tex

Etymology 2

deny +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭnī'ə(r), IPA^(key): /dɪˈnaɪə(r)/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

denier ‎(plural deniers)

1. Person who denies something.

   Holocaust denier (see Wikipedia:Holocaust denial)

   Global warming denier (see Wikipedia:Global warming denial)

   AIDS denier (see Wikipedia:AIDS denial)

Related terms

• denialism
• denialist

Translations

person who denies something

• Finnish: kieltäjä (fi)
• German: Leugner (de) m
• Serbo-Croatian: порицатељ m ‎(poricatelj), порицатељка f ‎(poricateljka)

• Volapük: (epicene) noan (vo), (male) hinoan, (female) jinoan

Anagrams

• Nereid, nereid, reined

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Finnish

Noun

denier

1. denier (unit of measure)
2. denier (old coin)

Declension

Inflection of denier (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative		denier	denierit
genitive		denierin	denierien deniereiden deniereitten
partitive		denieriä	deniereitä denierejä
illative		denieriin	deniereihin
		singular	plural
nominative		denier	denierit
accusative	nom.	denier	denierit
	gen.	denierin
genitive		denierin	denierien deniereiden deniereitten
partitive		denieriä	deniereitä denierejä
inessive		denierissä	deniereissä
elative		denieristä	deniereistä
illative		denieriin	deniereihin
adessive		denierillä	deniereillä
ablative		denieriltä	deniereiltä
allative		denierille	deniereille
essive		denierinä	deniereinä
translative		denieriksi	deniereiksi
instructive		—	denierein
abessive		denierittä	deniereittä
comitative		—	deniereineen

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French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French denier, Latin dēnārius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dənje/

Noun

denier m ‎(plural deniers)

1. denier (coin)
2. (by extension) money
3. denier (unit of weight)

Anagrams

• de rien

External links

• “denier” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French denier, Latin dēnārius.

Noun

denier m (plural deniers)

1. denier (coin)

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin dēnārius.

Noun

denier m ‎(oblique plural deniers, nominative singular deniers, nominative plural denier)

1. denier (coin)

Descendants

• English: denier (borrowing)
• Middle French: denier
  • French: denier

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Swedish

Wikipedia ^sv

Noun

denier c

1. denier

Declension

Declension of denier

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	denier	denieren	denier	denierer
genitive	deniers	denierens	deniers	denierers