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Meaning 1
Money or currency (modern).
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noun
Money or currency (modern).
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Coinage, especially with connotation as a means to control a monetary system (rare).
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Current coin of a state (ancient).
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Coinage, a monetary system.
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A byzant.
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A stamp, an image on a coin.
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History
Borrowed from Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma), from νομίζω (nomízō, “to use customarily”) + -μα (-ma, “nominal suffix”), from νόμος (nómos, “custom”) + -ίζω (-ízō, denominative verb suffix), from νέμω (némō, “to distribute”) + -ος (-os). Related to French numismatique, Latin numismat- + -ique, variant of Latin nomisma, from Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma).