ὀβολός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὀβελός (obelós, spit, rod). Plutarch tells us in Lysander 17 that, in early times, nails (ὀβελοί (obeloí)) were used as money, six of which made a handful (δραχμή (drakhmḗ)), and that the name was changed to ὀβολός (obolós).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ὀβολός • (obolós) m (genitive ὀβολοῦ); second declension

  1. obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and a coin, equaling one sixth of a drachma
    1. a Corcyrean coin

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Latin: obolus
  • Persian: پول (pul, money)

Further reading

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