nummular

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
18
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈnʌmjʊlə/
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/ˈnʌmjʊlə/ · /ˈnʌmjʊlɚ/

Definition of nummular

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (obsolete, rare)Of or relating to coins or money.
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adj

  1. (obsolete, rare)Of or relating to coins or money.
  2. (broadly)Flattened with a rounded form, as a disc; coin-shaped.
  3. (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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