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Latin
Etymology
Maybe from Ancient Greek γρυμέα (gruméa, “bag or chest”) or from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”), like Latin scrūta (“rubbish”) and scrautum (“quiver”).[1]
Noun
crumēna f (genitive crumēnae); first declension
- purse around the neck for carrying money
- (figuratively) the money itself
Declension
First-declension noun.
Synonyms
References
- “crumena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “crumena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “crumena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- crumena in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “crumena”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin