Stater Definition

stātər
staters
noun
A resident of a particular state or type of state. Often used in combination.
Lone Star staters; farm staters.
American Heritage
Any of various gold and silver coins of ancient Greece.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Stater

Noun

Singular:
stater
Plural:
staters

Origin of Stater

  • Middle English from Late Latin statēr from Greek from histanai sta- to set on a scale, weigh system

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

  • From Ancient Greek στατήρ (stater).

    From Wiktionary

  • state + -er

    From Wiktionary

Stater Sentence Examples

  • Thus foot, digit, palm, cubit, stadium, mile, talent, mina, stater, drachm, obol, pound, ounce, grain, metretes, medimrius, modius, hin and many others mean nothing exact unless qualified by the name of their country or city.

  • At Athens the old mina was fixed by Solon at 150 of his drachmae (18) or 9800 grains, according to the earliest drachmae, showing a stater of 196; and this continued to be the trade mina in Athens, at least until 160 B.C., but in a reduced form, in which it equalled only 138 Attic drachmae, or 9200.

  • The Greek mina weights show (44), on an average of 37,9650 (= stater of 193), varying from 186 to.

  • The greater part of those weights which bear names indicate a mina of double the usual reckoning, so that there was a light and a heavy system, a mina of the drachma and a mina of the stater, as in the Phoenician and Assyrian weights.

  • The coins of the Greek dynasts and autonomous towns are struck on a variable standard with a stater of 170 to 180 grs.

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Words Starting With

SSTSTA

Words Ending With

RERTER

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With S6 Letter Words Ending With R