obolus

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A silver coin minted in Ancient Greece, valued at a sixth of a drachma.
  2. Alternative form of obelus. alt-of,alternative
    — 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 (†)".
  3. A unit of weight, equal to one-sixth of a drachma. historical
    — Dav. […] And after that I met the boy of Chremes With fishes, and an obolus of herbs.

词形变化

oboli plural oboluses plural obol alternative obolos alternative oboli plural oboluses plural

词汇关系

衍生词
obolary

词源

From Latin obolus, from Ancient Greek ὀβολός (obolós), from ὀβελός (obelós). Doublet of obole and pul.
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