drachma

• drachm (obsolete)
• drachme (dated)
• drakhma, drakhme

Learned borrowing from Latin drachma and its etymon Doric Greek δρᾰχμᾱ́ (drăkhmā́). Doublet of dram, diram, dirham, dirhem, and adarme.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹæk.mə/, /ˈdɹɑk.mə/

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• Rhymes: -ækmə, -ɑːkmə

drachma (plural drachmas or drachmae or drachmai)

1. The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro.
   • 1993, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant, “Justice and Duty (i): Socrates Speaks at his Trial: the Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), revised edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 40:

     'Who is he, and where does he come from?' said I, 'and what does he charge?' 'Evenus of Paros, Socrates,' said he, 'and his fee is 500 drachmae.' I felt that Evenus was to be congratulated if he really was a master of this art and taught it at such a moderate fee.

     Twenty guineas in the 1st edition (1954).

   • 2008, Philip Matyszak, Ancient Athens on Five Drachmas a Day (title of the book)^[1]
2. A coin worth one drachma.
3. An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams.
4. A later Greek weight equal to a gram.

• obol

• new drachma

• drachuma

Borrowed from Doric Greek δρᾰχμᾱ́ (drăkhmā́); cognate with δρᾰχμή (drăkhmḗ).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdrakʰ.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪rak.ma]

drachma f (genitive drachmae); first declension

1. (Classical Latin) drachma (Ancient Greek coin, one hundredth of a mina)

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

• “drachma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “drachma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “drachma”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “drachma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “drachma”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin