different between byzant vs nomisma

English

Alternative forms

• bezant

Etymology

From Old French besant, nominative bezanz, from Latin Byzantius (“of Byzantium”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??zænt/

Noun

byzant (plural byzants)

1. (historical) A coin made of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium and used in currency throughout mediaeval Europe.

English

Etymology

Transliteration of Ancient Greek ??????? (nómisma).

Per Oxford Dictionary, the Online Etymology Dictionary, and Merriam Webster, money or currency, from Ancient Greek ??????? (nómisma), for current money, coin, usage, lit. "what has been sanctioned by custom or use," from ???????? (nomízein), to use customarily, itself from ????? (nómos), usage or custom, omitting -?????) and adding -????.

Related to French numismatique, from Late Latin numisma, numismatis (“coin”), variant of Latin nomisma, as noted, from Ancient Greek ???????.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?(?)?m?zm?/

Noun

nomisma (plural nomismata)

1. money or currency (modern).
2. coinage, esp. with connotation as a means to control a monetary system (rare).
3. current coin of a state (ancient).
4. (rare) Coinage, a monetary system.
5. (archaic) A byzant.
6. A stamp, an image on a coin.

Usage notes

• Per Oxford Dictionary, earliest use by William Camden, so early 17th century.
• 1997, John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium, Penguin 1998, p. 262

  For a quarter-century after, this decline continued, to the point where six different nomismata, of as many metals, were in circulation.

• Prud. ????. 2, 95 Archimedes Project, Harvard University

  en Caesar agnoscit suum Nomisma nummis inditum

Related terms

See numismatics (via numisma), and other derived and related terms there.

See also

• pecunia

References

Latin

Alternative forms

• numisma
• nummisma

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (nómisma, “coin; currency”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /no?mis.ma/, [n??m?s?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /no?mis.ma/, [n??mizm?]

Noun

nomisma n (genitive nomismatis); third declension

1. coin; coinage

Declension

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

References

• nomisma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nomisma in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nomisma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)