obole

Borrowed from French obole. Doublet of obolus, obol, and pul.

obole (plural oboles)

1. (historical) An obsolete French coin.
   • 2003, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Coins and Currency: An Historical Encyclopedia, →ISBN:

     If a small ship arrives at Billingsgate it will give one obole as thelony [custom]

• Boole

Learned borrowing from Latin obolus, from Ancient Greek ὀβολός (obolós).

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.bɔl/

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obole f (plural oboles)

1. a small amount of money
2. a small, inconsequential gift
3. obole (obsolete French money)
4. obol (obsolete Greek money)

• → English: obole
• → Romanian: obol

• “obole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

obolē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of oboleō

obole (Cyrillic spelling оболе)

1. feminine plural active past participle of obosti