denarius

Borrowed from Latin dēnārius. Doublet of denar and dinar.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈnɑːɹɪəs/

denarius (plural denarii or denariuses)

1. (Ancient Rome, numismatics) A small silver coin issued both during the Roman Republic and during the Roman Empire, equal to 10 asses or 4 sesterces.
   • 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 146:

     "Sorry, I thought you were Aurel. He owes me a denarius. Have you seen him?"

   • 2007, Philip Matyszak, Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day (title of the book)[1]

• The usual plural is denarii, but denariuses is also well attested.

• Eridanus, unireads, unraised

From dēnī (“ten each”) +‎ -ārius.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deːˈnaː.ri.us/, [d̪eːˈnäːriʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈna.ri.us/, [d̪eˈnäːrius]

dēnārius (feminine dēnāria, neuter dēnārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. Containing or consisting of ten things
2. denary

First/second-declension adjective.

dēnārius m (genitive dēnāriī or dēnārī); second declension

1. denarius (due to a single coin's value of 10 asses, each made of silver.)

One denarius always equals four sesterces. This gives it a value of 10 asses, which later became 16 assses after the values were changed.

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• 𐆖 (the symbol for the denarius)

• “denarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “denarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• denarius 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)
• denarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • corn had gone up to 50 denarii the bushel: ad denarios L in singulos modios annona pervenerat
    
• “denarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “denarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin