nomisma

Transliteration of Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma).

Per Oxford Dictionary, the Online Etymology Dictionary, and Merriam Webster, money or currency, from Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma), for current money, coin, usage, lit. "what has been sanctioned by custom or use," from νομίζειν (nomízein), to use customarily, itself from νόμος (nómos), usage or custom, omitting -ίζειν) and adding -ισμα.[1][2][3]

Related to French numismatique, from Late Latin numisma, numismatis (“coin”), variant of Latin nomisma, as noted, from Ancient Greek νόμισμα.

• IPA^(key): /nə(ʊ)ˈmɪzmə/

nomisma (plural nomismata)

1. money[2] or currency (modern).
2. coinage, esp. with connotation as a means to control a monetary system (rare).[2]
3. current coin of a state (ancient).
4. (rare) Coinage, a monetary system.
5. (archaic) A byzant.[2]
6. A stamp, an image on a coin.

• Per Oxford Dictionary, earliest use by William Camden, so early 17th century.[2]
• 1997, John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium, Penguin 1998, p. 262

  For a quarter-century after, this decline continued, to the point where six different nomismata, of as many metals, were in circulation.

• Prud. στεφ. 2, 95 Archimedes Project, Harvard University

  en Caesar agnoscit suum Nomisma nummis inditum

See numismatics (via numisma), and other derived and related terms there.

• pecunia

• numisma
• nummisma

From Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma, “coin; currency”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /noˈmis.ma/, [nɔˈmɪs.ma]

nomisma n (genitive nomismatis); third declension

1. coin; coinage

Third declension neuter.

• nomisma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nomisma in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nomisma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)