styca

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin styca, from Old English stycas, styċġċe pl, Northumbrian variants of Old English styċċe (“small piece of money; bit; piece”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstaɪ.kə/

Noun

styca (plural stycas)

  1. (historical) An Anglo-Saxon copper coin of little value, used in Northumbria.
    • 1859, Henry Noel Humphreys, The Coin Collector's Manual, or Guide to the Numismatic Student in the Formation of a Cabinet of Coins:
      They were contained in a bronze vessel, and were all stycas, consisting of 2000 of Eadred, 2000 of Ethelred […]

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