Crossword clues for denarius
denarius
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Denarius \De*na"ri*us\, n.; pl. Denarii. [L. See 2d Denier.] A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the ``penny'' of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ancient Roman silver coin, 1570s, from Latin denarius, noun use of adjective meaning "containing ten," and short for denarius nummus "the coin containing ten (aces)," from deni- "by tens," from decem "ten" (see ten).
Wiktionary
n. A small silver coin issued during the Rome, equal to 10 as or 4 sesterces.
Wikipedia
In the Roman currency system, the denarius (Anglicised pronunciation: ; plural: denarii ) was a small silver coin first minted about 211 BC during the Second Punic War. It became the most common coin produced for circulation but was slowly debased in weight and silver content until its replacement by the double denarius, called the antoninianus, early in the 3rd century AD. The word denarius is derived from the Latin dēnī "containing ten", as its value was 10 asses, although in the middle of the 2nd century BC it was recalibrated so that it was now worth sixteen asses or four sestertii. It is the origin of several modern words such as the currency name dinar; it is also the origin for the common noun for money in Italian denaro, in Portuguese dinheiro and in Spanish dinero. Its symbol is ???? (X̶ a letter x with stroke).
Usage examples of "denarius".
Save for a very rare issue or two of gold coins, the denarius was the largest denomination of coin under the Republic.
I have elected to use when speaking of Hellenic currency rather than Roman, because the drachma most closely approximated the denarius in weight at around 4 grams.
Though the denarius was a more common coin in circulation than the sestertius, Roman accounting procedures were always expressed in sesterces.
The real deal was trapped inside an ancient silver denarius, a Roman coin, which was buried under a couple of feet of concrete in my basement.
Two feet beneath it lay the Blackened Denarius where the rest of Lasciel was imprisoned.
Quintus gave a serving boy half a denarius to watch over them while we were inside.
He drew the hood of his cloak up over his head, his lips moving silently, and tossed his denarius in.
The one-in-eight plated silver denarius issue of Marcus Livius Drusus had given everyone an extreme mistrust of coined money, and too many sesterces were minted in an attempt to get around this difficulty.
Save for a very rare issue or two of gold coins, the denarius was the largest denomination of coin during the Roman Republic.
Whenever he could, he stole enough to slip old Quintus Gavius Myrto a silver denarius or a plump chicken, and when he was a little older, he sold himself to get that silver denarius.
A family could buy a whole modius of wheat, enough for a week of meals, for just three denarii, and a whole congius of fairly palatable wine for a single sesterce.
This spikenard was of great worth, as much as three hundred denarii, which is what a poor man earns by his labor over many a month, even a year.
She no longer had aurei for luxuries, let alone a plenitude of denarii for the barest of essentials.
Samaritan, he interprets the host as the Spirit and the two denarii as the Father and Son.
Of actual coins in circulation, there were probably more denarii than sesterces, but accounts were always expressed in sesterces, not denarii.