numisma

English

Etymology

From Late Latin numisma, numismatis (“coin”), variant of Latin nomisma. A transliteration of Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma), for current money, coin, usage, lit. "what has been sanctioned by custom or use," from νομίζειν (nomízein), to use customarily, itself from νόμος (nómos). Related to French numismatique. See numismatic and nomisma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /njuː.ˈmɪz.mə/

Noun

numisma (plural numismata)

1. In modern usage, money or currency; rarely, coinage, especially as a means to control a monetary system (i.e., as coinage can mean a monetary system). Archaically, a byzant (specific gold coin). In ancient use, the current coin of a state.

Usage notes

See numismatic and nomisma.

Related terms

See numismatics, and other derived and related terms there.

See also

• pecunia

Anagrams

• Samnium

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Interlingua

Etymology

See etymology subsection under English.

Noun

numisma (plural numismas)

1. coin

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Latin

Noun

numisma n (genitive numismatis); third declension

1. Alternative form of nomisma

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	numisma	numismata
genitive	numismatis	numismatum
dative	numismatī	numismatibus
accusative	numisma	numismata
ablative	numismate	numismatibus
vocative	numisma	numismata

Descendants

• Portuguese: numisma

References

• numisma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “numisma”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “numisma” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)