numisma

From Late Latin numisma, numismatis (“coin”), variant of Latin nomisma, from Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma), for current money, coin, usage, lit. "what has been sanctioned by custom or use," from νομίζω (nomízō, “to use customarily”), itself from νόμος (nómos). Related to French numismatique. See numismatic and nomisma.

• IPA^(key): /njuːˈmɪz.mə/

numisma (plural numismata)

1. In modern usage, money or currency; rarely, coinage, especially as a means to control a monetary system (i.e., as coinage can mean a monetary system).
2. (archaic) A byzant (specific gold coin).
3. (historical) The current coin of a state.

See numismatic and nomisma.

See numismatics, and other derived and related terms there.

• pecunia

• Samnium

See etymology subsection under English.

numisma (plural numismas)

1. coin

numisma n (genitive numismatis); third declension

1. alternative form of nomisma

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• Portuguese: numisma

• “numisma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "numisma", 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)
• numisma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

numisma m (plural numismas)

1. numisma

• “numisma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024