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English
Etymology
Late Latin triobolaris, from Latin triobolus (“a coin worth three oboli”), from Ancient Greek τρῐώβολον (trĭṓbolon). Literally, "having the value of three oboli".
Adjective
triobolar (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Mean; worthless.
c. 1647, Jasper Mayne, Sermon against False Prophets:It may pass current […] for a triobolar ballad.
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