Denarius Definition

dĭ-nârē-əs
denarii
noun
An ancient Roman silver coin, the penny of the New Testament.
Webster's New World
An ancient Roman gold coin, worth 25 silver denarii.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Denarius

Noun

Singular:
denarius
Plural:
denarii

Origin of Denarius

  • Middle English from Latin dēnārius denary

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from Latin dēnārius.

    From Wiktionary

Denarius Sentence Examples

  • The unit of money was the denarius, not the silver, but a copper coin introduced by Diocletian, of which the value has been fixed approximately at kth of a penny.

  • In the end, gently sifting away the excess, I uncovered another beautiful blackened denarius.

  • When Jesus asks them if they have a silver denarius on their person, He tricks them into answering their own question.

  • This is a silver denarius - the coin used to pay soldiers in the Roman army.

  • Besides his papers in the Philosophical Transactions, the principal works of Greaves are Pyramidographia, or a Description of the Pyramids in Egypt (1646); A Discourse on the Roman Foot and Denarius (1649); and Elementa linguae Persicae (1649).

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Words Starting With

DDEDEN

Words Ending With

SUSIUS

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