Nummusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin nummus. Doublet of luma.

名詞

nummus (plural nummi)

1. (historical) Any of a range of low-value copper coins issued by the Roman and Byzantine empires during Late Antiquity.

語源

From Doric Greek νοῦμμος (noûmmos), a cognate of Attic Greek νόμος (nómos). Compare with numerus, from the same root.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈnʊm.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈnum.mus]

名詞

nummus m (genitive nummī); second declension

1. a coin, piece of money

使用する際の注意点

• Some works ascribe this name to a particular Roman coin, such as the sesterce, but it is unclear which coin was ever known by this name in Latin.
• In Classical Latin, the genitive plural is usually nummum when used with a form of mīlle (“thousand”), nummōrum elsewhere; rare exceptions occur.

語形変化

Second-declension noun (alternative genitive plural in -um).

alternative genitive plural in -um.

派生語

参照

• “nummus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nummus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "nummus", 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)
• “nummus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • bad money; base coin: nummi adulterini
    
  • the bank-rate varies: nummus iactatur (Off. 3. 20. 80)
    
  • to have no debts: in suis nummis versari (Verr. 4. 6. 11)
    
• “nummus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nummus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin