dragma

Latin

Etymology

From Classical Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdraɡ.ma/, [ˈd̪räɡmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdraɡ.ma/, [ˈd̪räɡmä]

Noun

dragma f (genitive dragmae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) drachma (coin)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dragma	dragmae
Genitive	dragmae	dragmārum
Dative	dragmae	dragmīs
Accusative	dragmam	dragmās
Ablative	dragmā	dragmīs
Vocative	dragma	dragmae

Descendants

• → Old French: dragme, drame
  • → English: dram
    • → Danish: dram
      • → Faroese: drammur
      • → Norwegian: dram
    • → Scottish Gaelic: dràm
  • French: drachme
    • → English: drachme, drachm
    • → German: Drachme
  • Norman: dranme
• → Old Spanish: dragma

References

• “dragma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dragma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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Old Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin dragma, from Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdraɣ.ma]

Noun

dragma f (plural dragmas)

1. drachma (coin and unit of measure)
   • c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 8v.

     […] si dieré del poluo della a beuer peſante de quatro dragmas al q́ a dolor en el eſtentino a que llaman colon ſana luego.

     […] if they were to give four drachmas of weight of it powdered to drink to someone whose gut, the one they call colon, ached, he would be cured.

   • Idem, f. 79r.

     La ſegunda es q́ ſi beuiere oḿe della peſo duna dragma purga melanconia temprada miente ¬ bien.

     The second is that if one were to drink of it the weight of one drachma, it purges black bile soon and well.