nummular
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Definition of nummular
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
- (obsolete, rare)Of or relating to coins or money.
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adj
- (obsolete, rare)Of or relating to coins or money.
- (broadly)Flattened with a rounded form, as a disc; coin-shaped.
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(broadly, obsolete)Flattened with a rounded form, as a disc; coin-shaped.
“NUMMULAR […] An epithet applied to the sputa in phthisis, when they flatten at the bottom of the vessel, like a piece of money.”
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Etymology
From Latin nummulus (“(small amount of) money”) + English -ar (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of, pertaining to, or near’). Nummulus is the diminutive of nummus (“a coin; piece…
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From Latin nummulus (“(small amount of) money”) + English -ar (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of, pertaining to, or near’). Nummulus is the diminutive of nummus (“a coin; piece of money”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix); while nummus is from Doric Greek νοῦμμος (noûmmos), from Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos, “kind of coin”), from νέμω (némō, “to deal out, dispense, distribute”) (from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to distribute; to give; to take”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming nouns).
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