English Explanatory Dictionary

hyperpyron

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A Byzantine coin in use during the late Middle Ages, replacing the solidus as the Byzantine Empire’s gold coinage.

Word forms

hyperpyron hyperpyra hyperpyrons

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek ὑπέρπυρον (hupérpuron). Doublet of perper and perpera.

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