denarius

Borrowed from Latin dēnārius.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈnɑːɹɪəs/

denarius (plural denarii or denariuses)

1. (Ancient Rome) A small silver coin issued both during the Roman Republic and during the Roman Empire, equal to 10 asses or 4 sesterces.

• The usual plural is denarii, but denariuses is also well attested.

• Eridanus, unraised

From dēnī (“ten each”) +‎ -ārius.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deːˈnaː.ri.us/, [deːˈnaː.ri.ʊs]

dēnārius (feminine dēnāria, neuter dēnārium); first/second declension

1. Containing or consisting of ten things
2. denary

First/second declension.

dēnārius m (genitive dēnārii); second declension

1. denarius (due to a single coin's value of 10 asses each)

Second declension.

• denarius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• denarius in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• denarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• denarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • corn had gone up to 50 denarii the bushel: ad denarios L in singulos modios annona pervenerat
    
• denarius in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• denarius in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin