groat
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English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɹoʊt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡɹəʊt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (obsolete) IPA(key): /ɡɹɔːt/
- Rhymes: -əʊt
Etymology 1
From Middle English grot, from Old English grot, from Proto-West Germanic *grot, from Proto-Germanic *grutą, related to *greutą. More at grit, grout.
Noun
groat (countable and uncountable, plural groats)
Derived terms
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Translations
hulled grain
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Etymology 2
Possibly from Middle Dutch groot, the Old French gros Tournois (“a coin of Tours”), from Medieval Latin denarius (“coin”) grossus (“large”). Related to German Groschen.
Noun
groat (plural groats)
- (archaic or historical) Any of various old coins of England and Scotland.
- 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw , Act I:
- The Widdow that hath but a pan of braſſe,
And ſcarſe a houſe to hide her head,
Sometimes no penny to buy her bread,
Muſt pay her Landlord many a groat,
Or twil be puld out of her throat:
- A historical English silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins.
- c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. , London: I B for Nicholas Vavasour, , published 1633, →OCLC, Act I:
- The needy groom, that never finger'd groat,
Would make a miracle of thus much coin …
- A proverbial small sum; a whit or jot.
Translations
English silver four penny coin
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See also
Groat (grain) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Groat (coin) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9), volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 10.81, page 315.