nomisma

Meanings

1. Money or currency (modern).
2. Coinage, especially with connotation as a means to control a monetary system (rare).
3. Current coin of a state (ancient).
4. Coinage, a monetary system.
5. A byzant.
6. A stamp, an image on a coin.

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma), from νομίζω (nomízō, “to use customarily”) + -μα (-ma, “nominal suffix”), from νόμος (nómos, “custom”) + -ίζω (-ízō, denominative verb suffix), from νέμω (némō, “to distribute”) + -ος (-os). Related to French numismatique, Latin numismat- + -ique, variant of Latin nomisma, from Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma).