Noun: dragma
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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[…] si dierẽ del poluo della a beuer peſante de quatro dragmas al q̃ a dolor en el eſtentino a que llaman colon ſana luego. ([…] if they were to give four drams of weight of it powdered to drink to someone whose gut, the one they call colon, ached, he would be cured.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 8v:]
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La ſegunda es q̃ ſi beuiere om̃e della peſo duna dragma purga melanconia temprada miente ⁊ bien. (The second is that if one were to drink of it the weight of one dram, it purges black bile soon and well.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 79r.:]
Nouns inflected like dragma
semana,
sennal,
sangre,
sangne,
siesta,
siella,
çanahoria,
companna,
yantar,
pergamino,
fazienda,
jargonça,
obscuridat,
deuinança,
persona,
culuebra,
grossura,
alcarchofa,
mercadura,
berguença, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Late Latin dragma, from Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ). See: Latin Nouns '
drachma', Ancient Greek Nouns '
δραχμή'.
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