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発音

• IPA^(key): /kənˈtɔː(ɹ).ni.ət/

名詞

contorniate (複数形 contorniates)

1. A bronze medal or medallion with a deep furrow on the contour or edge, supposed to have been struck in the days of Constantine and his successors.
   • 1864, Reginald Stuart Poole, "The Coins of the Ptolemies" in The numismatic chronicle Volume IV

     Mr. Evans exhibited a fine contorniate, bearing the head of Nero

形容詞

contorniate (not comparable)

1. Having a furrow of this kind.
   • 1888, Archaeologia Cambrensis (page 141)

     […] by its close analogy with a more elaborate composition on a contorniate medal of the same Emperor, which was certainly commemorative of that event.