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語源 1

From Latin obolus, from Ancient Greek ὀβολός (obolós), from ὀβελός (obelós). Doublet of obole and pul.

別の表記

• obol
• obolos

名詞

obolus (plural oboli or oboluses)

1. A silver coin minted in Ancient Greece, valued at a sixth of a drachma.
2. (historical) A unit of weight, equal to one-sixth of a drachma.
   • 1870, John Benson Coles Rose, Comedies of Publius Terentius Afer, Andria, Act II, sc. 2, page 21

     Dav. […] And after that I met the boy of Chremes
     

     With fishes, and an obolus of herbs.

派生語

語源 2

名詞

obolus (plural oboli or oboluses)

1. Alternative form of obelus.
   • 1914, Charles David Stewart, “The Principles of Government”, in Some Textual Difficulties in Shakespeare, page 27:

     The Globe editors have marked it with the obolus according to their explanation in the preface: "Whenever a lacuna occurs too great to be filled out with any approach to certainty by conjecture, we have marked the passage with an obolus (†)".

名詞

obolus m (genitive obolī); second declension

1. obolus (Greek coin)
2. weight: a sixth of a drachma or 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams
3. money: one-sixth of a drachma, a small Greek coin, three cents worth

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

参照

• “obolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “obolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "obolus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “obolus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• obolus, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “obolus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “obolus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin