nummus

English

Borrowed from Latin nummus.

nummus (plural nummi)

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

From νοῦμμος (noûmmos), Doric version of Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos). Confer with numerus, from the same root.

nummus m (genitive nummī); second declension

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.

The expected form for the genitive plural nummōrum is often written nummum instead in Classical Latin.

Second declension.

Terms derived from nummus

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, 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

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