English Explanatory Dictionary

nummular

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or relating to coins or money.
  2. Flattened with a rounded form, as a disc; coin-shaped.
  3. Characterized by lesions (especially on the cornea or skin) which are round with well-defined borders.
  4. Of sputum: forming flat, round shapes (formerly thought to be a symptom of tuberculosis).

Pronunciation

/ˈnʌmjʊlə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-nummular.wav /ˈnʌmjʊlɚ/

Word forms

nummular more nummular most nummular

Etymology

From Latin nummulus (“(small amount of) money”) + English -ar (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of, pertaining to, or near’). Nummulus is the diminutive of nummus (“a coin; piece of money”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix); while nummus is from Doric Greek νοῦμμος (noûmmos), from Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos, “kind of coin”), from νέμω (némō, “to deal out, dispense, distribute”) (from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to distribute; to give; to take”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming nouns).

Synonyms

monetary numismatic nummary nummulary coinlike nummulated

Related words

nummary nummulary nummulated nummulation nummuline nummulite nummulitic nummulitid nummus

Translations

Chinese Mandarin: 硬幣形的 /硬币形的 French: nummulaire Italian: nummulare Latin: nummulāris Portuguese: numular Spanish: numular
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