drachma

• drachm (obsolete)
• drachme (dated)
• drakhma, drakhme

Borrowed from Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ). Doublet of dram, diram, dirham, dirhem, and adarme.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹæk.mə/, /ˈdɹɑk.mə/

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• Rhymes: -ækmə, -ɑːkmə

drachma (plural drachmas or drachmae or drachmai)

1. The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro.
   • 2008, Philip Matyszak, Ancient Athens on Five Drachmas a Day (title of the book)[1]
2. A coin worth one drachma.
3. An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams.
4. A later Greek weight equal to a gram.

• obol

• new drachma

• drachuma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdrakʰ.ma/, [ˈd̪räkʰmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdrak.ma/, [ˈd̪räkmä]

drachma f (genitive drachmae); first declension

1. (Classical Latin) drachma (Ancient Greek coin, one hundredth of a mina)

First-declension noun.

• ⇒ Late Latin: dragma
  • → Old French: dragme, drame
    • → English: dram
      • → Danish: dram
        • → Faroese: drammur
        • → Norwegian: dram
      • → Scottish Gaelic: dràm
    • French: drachme
      • → English: drachme, drachm
      • → German: Drachme
    • Norman: dranme
  • → Old Galician-Portuguese: drama
  • → Old Spanish: dragma
• → Armenian: դրախմա (draxma)
• → Belarusian: дра́хма (dráxma)
• → Bulgarian: дра́хма (dráhma)
• → Catalan: dracma, drama
• → Czech: drachma
• → English: drachma
• → Faroese: drakma
• → Finnish: drakma
• → Galician: dracma
• → Gothic: 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌼𐌰 (drakma)
• → Italian: dracma, dramma
• → Macedonian: драхма (drahma)
• → Portuguese: dracma
• → Russian: дра́хма (dráxma)
• → Serbo-Croatian: дра̀хма (dràhma)
• → Spanish: dracma
• → Ukrainian: дра́хма (dráxma)

• “drachma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “drachma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• drachma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “drachma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “drachma”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin