denier

From Old French denier, from Latin denarius.

• enPR: dənyā'
• enPR: dənî(r)', IPA^(key): /dəˈnɪə(ɹ)/ (coin)
  
• enPR: dĕn'yə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈdɛnjə(ɹ)/ (unit of fineness of yarn)

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

denier (plural deniers)

1. (now historical) An old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou.
   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 117:

     A bronze denier bearing the inscription CONRADUS around a central cross, was minted in Lugdunum.

2. A unit of weight which indicates the fineness of fiber or yarn, equal to one gram per 9000 meters, used especially to measure or indicate the fineness of hosiery. Originally equal to the weight of a denier coin per 9600 aunes.
   • 2002, Jill Mansell, Staying at Daisy's:

     Upstairs she rummaged through her chest of drawers, finally unearthing an unopened pack of ten denier barely blacks.

• tex

deny +‎ -er.

• enPR: dĭnī'ə(r), IPA^(key): /dɪˈnaɪə(ɹ)/

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denier (plural deniers)

1. Person who denies something.

   Holocaust denier (see Wikipedia:Holocaust denial)

   Global warming denier (see Wikipedia:Global warming denial)

   AIDS denier (see Wikipedia:AIDS denial)

• denialism
• denialist

• Edirne, Nereid, diener, nereid, reined

denier

1. denier (unit of measure)
2. denier (old coin)

• dreeni, reiden

From Middle French, from Old French denier, inherited from Latin dēnārius. Doublet of dénaire.

• IPA^(key): /də.nje/

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denier m (plural deniers)

1. denier (coin)
2. (by extension) money
3. denier (unit of weight)

• “denier” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• de rien

From Old French denier, Latin dēnārius.

denier m (plural deniers)

1. denier (coin)

From Latin dēnārius.

denier m (oblique plural deniers, nominative singular deniers, nominative plural denier)

1. denier (coin)

• English: denier (borrowing)
• Middle French: denier
  • French: denier

denier c

1. denier