Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ancient Roman silver coin.
- noun An ancient Roman gold coin valued at 25 silver denarii.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principal silver coin of the Ro-mans under the republic and the empire.
- noun A Roman weight, the 86th or 94th of a Roman pound.
- noun In English monetary reckoning, a penny, represented by the abbreviation d., the penny having been originally, like the Roman denarius, the largest silver coin: as, 6s. 8d. (six shillings and eight pence).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
silver coin issued during theRoman Empire , equal to 10asses .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The decad, or denarius, indicated comprehensively all being, material and immaterial, in the utmost perfection: hence the term _decas_, or _denarius_, was used summarily for the whole science of numbers, as in the title of Meursius's tract _De
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“Dínár,” from the Latin denarius (a silver coin worth ten ounces of brass) through the Greek {Greek Letters}: it is a
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“Mr. Ambassador,” Data said, “the denarius was an ancient Roman coin which went out of use long before the twentieth century.”
DEBTOR'S PLANET W.R. THOMPSON 2000
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The denarius was the South German equivalent of the North
German Culture Past and Present Ernest Belfort Bax 1890
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: A denarius was a coin anciently equal to ten sesterces, and bearing the king's image.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842
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The type of coin, known as a denarius, was first struck in Rome in 211 BC, making the Hallaton coin a very early version, the council said.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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After all, a denarius is a daily wage, and a subsistence wage at that.
Vindicated 2008
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'two coins': at the time, a denarius was a silver coin, and a Roman foot soldier would earn one a day.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] ChrisY 2010
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'two coins': at the time, a denarius was a silver coin, and a Roman foot soldier would earn one a day.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] ChrisY 2010
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'two coins': at the time, a denarius was a silver coin, and a Roman foot soldier would earn one a day.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] DouglasA 2010
john commented on the word denarius
"When the original treaty calling for “ever-closer union�? was signed in Rome in 1957, global currencies were tied to the dollar, which was linked to gold. Dreams of a common European money, harkening back to the days of the Roman Empire’s silver denarius, seemed impossible."
The New York Times, Once an Impossible Dream, the Euro Reigns Supreme, by Carter Dougherty and Mark Landler, June 3, 2008
June 3, 2008