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Latin
Etymology
From nummus (“piece of money”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈnum.mu.lus/,
Noun
nummulus m (genitive nummulī); second declension
- (small amount of) money
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
References
- “nummulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nummulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nummulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- for a trifle, a beggarly pittance: nummulis acceptis (Att. 1. 16. 6)