crumena

Maybe from Ancient Greek γρυμέα (gruméa, “bag or chest”) or from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”), like Latin scrūta (“rubbish”) and scrautum (“quiver”)[1].

crumēna f (genitive crumēnae); first declension

1. purse around the neck for carrying money
2. (figuratively) the money itself

First-declension noun.

• saccus
• lūra
• bursa
• aluta

• “crumena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “crumena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “crumena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crumena in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “crumena”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin