aureus

From Latin aureus (“golden; gold coin equivalent to 25 denarii”), noun use of adjective, from aurum (“gold”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːɹɪəs/

aureus (plural aurei)

1. A gold coin, minted in the Roman Empire from approximately 100 BCE to 309 CE, equal to 25 denarii.

• uraeus, uræus

aurum (“gold”) +‎ -eus (“-ous”, derivational suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.re.us/, [ˈau̯.re.ʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.re.us/

aureus (feminine aurea, neuter aureum); first/second declension

1. Made of gold, golden; gilded.
2. Of the color of gold, gold-colored; shining or glittering like gold.
3. (figuratively) golden, beautiful, splendid, magnificent, excellent.

First/second declension.

• (made of gold): aureolus
• (gilded): aureolus, bracteātus
• (of the color of gold): aurātilis, auricolor, aurōsus, aurulentus, chrȳseus
• (splendid, excellent): aureolus

aureus m (genitive aureī); second declension

1. (numismatics) gold coin equivalent to 25 denarii, aureus (up to the 4th century AD)

Second declension.

• solidus

• aureātus
• Aurēlius
• aureolus

• aureus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aureus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aureus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• aureus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• aureus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aureus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• aureus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin