nummulus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *nem-der.

Proto-Indo-European *németi

Proto-Hellenic *némō

Ancient Greek νέμω (némō)

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Hellenic *-os

Ancient Greek -ος (-os)

Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos)

Doric Greek νοῦμμος (noûmmos)bor.

Latin nummus

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulus

Latin nummulus

From nummus (“piece of money”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnʊm.mʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnum.mu.lus]

Noun

nummulus m (genitive nummulī); second declension

1. (small amount of) money

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	nummulus	nummulī
genitive	nummulī	nummulōrum
dative	nummulō	nummulīs
accusative	nummulum	nummulōs
ablative	nummulō	nummulīs
vocative	nummule	nummulī

Derived terms

• nummulāris
• nummulārius

References

• “nummulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nummulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nummulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • for a trifle, a beggarly pittance: nummulis acceptis (Att. 1. 16. 6)