nummular
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]A nummular (sense 2) or coin-shaped brooch dating to 900–1100 C.E. unearthed in Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
From Latin nummulus (“(small amount of) money”) + English -ar (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of, pertaining to, or near’).[1] Nummulus is the diminutive of nummus (“a coin; piece of money”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix); while nummus is from Doric Greek νοῦμμος (noûmmos), from Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos, “kind of coin”), from νέμω (némō, “to deal out, dispense, distribute”) (from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to distribute; to give; to take”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming nouns).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnʌmjʊlə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnʌmjʊlɚ/
- Hyphenation: num‧mul‧ar
Adjective
[edit]nummular (comparative more nummular, superlative most nummular)
- (obsolete, rare) Of or relating to coins or money.
- Synonyms: monetary, numismatic, nummary, nummulary
- (by extension) Flattened with a rounded form, as a disc; coin-shaped.
- Synonym: coinlike
- (pathology) Characterized by lesions (especially on the cornea or skin) which are round with well-defined borders.
- (pathology, obsolete) Of sputum: forming flat, round shapes (formerly thought to be a symptom of tuberculosis).
- Synonyms: (obsolete, rare) nummulary, (obsolete) nummulated
- [1839, Robley Dunglison, “NUMMULAR”, in Medical Lexicon. A New Dictionary of Medical Science, […], 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, successors to Carey and Co., →OCLC, page 421, column 2:
- NUMMULAR […] An epithet applied to the sputa in phthisis, when they flatten at the bottom of the vessel, like a piece of money.]
Related terms
[edit]- nummary
- nummulary (obsolete or rare)
- nummulated (adjective, obsolete)
- nummulation
- nummuline (obsolete)
- nummulite
- nummulitic
- nummulitid
- nummus
Translations
[edit]flattened with a rounded form; coin-shaped
characterized by lesions which are round with well-defined borders
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References
[edit]- ^ “nummular, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021; “nummular, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
[edit]coin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
nummular (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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