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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κόλλυβος (kóllubos).
Pronunciation
Noun
collybus m (genitive collybī); second declension
- exchange (of currencies)
- rate of exchange; premium
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- “collybus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “collybus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- collybus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “collybus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “collybus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin