drachma

• drachm

From Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ, “a drachma”), from δράσσομαι (drássomai, “to grasp, seize”)

drachma (plural drachmas or drachmae or drachmai)

1. The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro.
2. A coin worth one drachma.
3. An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains.
4. A later Greek weight equal to a gram.

• new drachma

• drachuma

From Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdrakʰ.ma/

drachma f (genitive drachmae); first declension

1. drachma (Ancient Greek coin, one hundredth of a mina)

First declension.

• drachma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• drachma in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• drachma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• drachma in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• drachma in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin