Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small Roman coin of the weight of four drachmas, being the twenty-fourth part of the Roman pound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rom. Antiq.) A Roman coin equivalent to one twenty-fourth part of a Roman pound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
bronze coin minted during theRoman Republic , valued at one-twenty-fourth of anas .
Etymologies
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Latin semuncia ("half-ounce").
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Examples
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GREVILLEA (CYCLOPTERA?) lineata, foliis indivisis lineari-ens formibus enerviis subter striis decem paucioribus elevatis uniformibus interstitia bis-terve latitudine superantibus, cicatrice insertionis latiore quam longa utrinque obtusa, racemis terminalibus alternis, pistillis semuncia brevioribus stigmate conico.
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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[Footnote 17: _Ostendi alias, quomodo lib. una aquæ vitæ combibita in sale Tartari siccato, vix fiat semuncia salis, cæterum totum corpus fiat aqua Elementalis.
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