obolus
See also: Obolus
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Latin obolus, from Ancient Greek ὀβολός (obolós), from ὀβελός (obelós). Doublet of obole and pul.
Alternative forms
editNoun
editobolus (plural oboli or oboluses)
- A silver coin minted in Ancient Greece, valued at a sixth of a drachma.
- (historical) A unit of weight, equal to one-sixth of a drachma.
- 1870, John Benson Coles Rose, Comedies of Publius Terentius Afer, Andria, Act II, sc. 2, page 21
- Dav. […] And after that I met the boy of Chremes
- With fishes, and an obolus of herbs.
- Dav. […] And after that I met the boy of Chremes
- 1870, John Benson Coles Rose, Comedies of Publius Terentius Afer, Andria, Act II, sc. 2, page 21
Translations
editsilver coin
historical unit of weight
Etymology 2
editNoun
editobolus (plural oboli or oboluses)
- Alternative form of obelus
- 1914, Charles David Stewart, “The Principles of Government”, in Some Textual Difficulties in Shakespeare, page 27:
- The Globe editors have marked it with the obolus according to their explanation in the preface: "Whenever a lacuna occurs too great to be filled out with any approach to certainty by conjecture, we have marked the passage with an obolus (†)".
Latin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈo.bo.lus/, [ˈɔbɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.bo.lus/, [ˈɔːbolus]
Noun
editobolus m (genitive obolī); second declension
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | obolus | obolī |
Genitive | obolī | obolōrum |
Dative | obolō | obolīs |
Accusative | obolum | obolōs |
Ablative | obolō | obolīs |
Vocative | obole | obolī |
References
edit- “obolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obolus 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)
- obolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “obolus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “obolus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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