different between obol vs obolus

English

Alternative forms

• obolos
• obolus

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (obolós) (literally “spit” or “iron rod”). Doublet of obole and pul.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??.b?l/, /?o?.b?l/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???b?l/, /??.b?l/

Noun

obol (plural obols)

1. (historical) A silver coin of Ancient Greece.

   In Classical Athens, there were six obols to one drachma.

2. (historical) A weight, equivalent to one sixth of a drachma.

Derived terms

• diobol
• triobol

Coordinate terms

• drachma

Translations

Anagrams

• BOLO, Lobo, bloo, bolo, bool, lobo, loob

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?bol/

Noun

oból m  or óbol m (plural oboolá f)

1. dust

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Romanian

Etymology

From French obole, from Latin obolus.

Noun

obol n (plural oboluri)

1. obole

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• obol
• obolos

Etymology

Latin obolus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (obolós), from ?????? (obelós). Doublet of obole and pul

Noun

obolus (plural oboli or oboluses)

1. A silver coin minted in Ancient Greece, valued at a sixth of a drachma.

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?o.bo.lus/, [??b????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?o.bo.lus/, [???b?lus]

Noun

obolus m (genitive obol?); second declension

1. obolus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

• obolus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• obolus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obolus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• obolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• obolus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obolus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin