dragma

From Classical Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdraɡ.ma/, [ˈd̪räɡmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdraɡ.ma/, [ˈd̪räɡmä]

dragma f (genitive dragmae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) drachma (coin)

First-declension noun.

• → Old French: dragme, drame
  • → English: dram
    • → Danish: dram
      • → Faroese: drammur
      • → Norwegian: dram
    • → Scottish Gaelic: dràm
  • French: drachme
    • → English: drachme, drachm
    • → German: Drachme
  • Norman: dranme
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: drama
• → Old Spanish: dragma

• “dragma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dragma 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)

From Late Latin dragma, from Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɾaɡma/

dragma f (plural dragmas)

1. drachma, dram (coin and unit of measure)
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 8v:

     […] si dierẽ del poluo della a beuer peſante de quatro dragmas al q̃ a dolor en el eſtentino a que llaman colon ſana luego.

     […] if they were to give four drams of weight of it powdered to drink to someone whose gut, the one they call colon, ached, he would be cured.

   • Idem, f. 79r.

     La ſegunda es q̃ ſi beuiere om̃e della peſo duna dragma purga melanconia temprada miente ⁊ bien.

     The second is that if one were to drink of it the weight of one dram, it purges black bile soon and well.