Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. An ancient Roman silver coin.
- n. An ancient Roman gold coin valued at 25 silver denarii.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A small silver coin issued during the Roman Empire, equal to 10 asses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the “penny” of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The principal silver coin of the Ro-mans under the republic and the empire.
- n. A Roman weight, the 86th or 94th of a Roman pound.
- n. In English monetary reckoning, a penny, represented by the abbreviation d., the penny having been originally, like the Roman denarius, the largest silver coin: as, 6s. 8d. (six shillings and eight pence).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The decad, or denarius, indicated comprehensively all being, material and immaterial, in the utmost perfection: hence the term _decas_, or _denarius_, was used summarily for the whole science of numbers, as in the title of Meursius's tract _De
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“Dínár,” from the Latin denarius (a silver coin worth ten ounces of brass) through the Greek {Greek Letters}: it is a
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“Mr. Ambassador,” Data said, “the denarius was an ancient Roman coin which went out of use long before the twentieth century.”
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The denarius was the South German equivalent of the North
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: A denarius was a coin anciently equal to ten sesterces, and bearing the king's image.
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The type of coin, known as a denarius, was first struck in Rome in 211 BC, making the Hallaton coin a very early version, the council said.
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After all, a denarius is a daily wage, and a subsistence wage at that.
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'two coins': at the time, a denarius was a silver coin, and a Roman foot soldier would earn one a day.
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One of the most valuable exhibits is the "silver treasure of Podebrady" (central Bohemia), comprising some 1400 "denarius" silver coins, the oldest currency unit in the Czech Lands from the 10th century.
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"I do not complain," his friend continued, "of the amount of the tax-a denarius is a trifle.
john commented on the word denarius
"When the original treaty calling for “ever-closer union�? was signed in Rome in 1957, global currencies were tied to the dollar, which was linked to gold. Dreams of a common European money, harkening back to the days of the Roman Empire’s silver denarius, seemed impossible."
The New York Times, Once an Impossible Dream, the Euro Reigns Supreme, by Carter Dougherty and Mark Landler, June 3, 2008
June 3, 2008