numisma

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

• IPA^(key): /njuː.ˈmɪz.mə/

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.

See numismatic and nomisma.

See numismatics, and other derived and related terms there.

• pecunia

• Samnium

See etymology subsection under English.

numisma (plural numismas)

1. coin

numisma n (genitive numismatis); third declension

1. Alternative form of nomisma

Third declension neuter.

• Portuguese: numisma

• 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, 1883–1887)
• numisma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

numisma f (plural numismas)

1. numisma