Obolus

Synonyms for "obolus" (3 found)

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Closest matches (1)

Noun(1 words)
greek coin

Strong matches (1)

Noun(1 words)

Related words (1)

Noun(1 words)
small coin

Related word relations

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4 relation types

More general

4 entries
coincurrency unitweightweight unit

More specific

2 entries
copper obolsilver obol

Collocations

6 entries
Greek currencyancient Greek coinbronze obolmonetary unitsilver obolsmall denomination

Inflections

2 entries

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

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Dav. […] And after that I met the boy of Chremes With fishes, and an obolus of herbs.

Source: wiktionary

The Globe editors have marked it with the obolus according to their explanation in the preface: "Whenever a lacuna occurs too great to be filled out with any approach to certainty by conjecture, we have marked the passage with an obolus (†)".

Source: wiktionary

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