numisma

English

Etymology

From Late Latin numisma, numismatis (“coin”), variant of Latin nomisma, from Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma), for current money, coin, usage, lit. "what has been sanctioned by custom or use," from νομίζω (nomízō, “to use customarily”), itself from νόμος (nómos). Related to French numismatique. See numismatic and nomisma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /njuːˈmɪz.mə/

Noun

numisma (plural numismata)

1. In modern usage, money or currency; rarely, coinage, especially as a means to control a monetary system (i.e., as coinage can mean a monetary system). Archaically, a byzant (specific gold coin). In ancient use, the current coin of a state.

Usage notes

See numismatic and nomisma.

Related terms

See numismatics, and other derived and related terms there.

See also

• pecunia

Anagrams

• Samnium

Interlingua

Etymology

See etymology subsection under English.

Noun

numisma (plural numismas)

1. coin

Latin

Noun

numisma n (genitive numismatis); third declension

1. Alternative form of nomisma

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	numisma	numismata
Genitive	numismatis	numismatum
Dative	numismatī	numismatibus
Accusative	numisma	numismata
Ablative	numismate	numismatibus
Vocative	numisma	numismata

Descendants

• Portuguese: numisma

References

• “numisma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• numisma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• numisma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Noun

numisma f (plural numismas)

1. numisma

Further reading

• “numisma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014