Latin

Noun

dragma f ‎(genitive dragmae); first declension

1. drachma (coin)

Inflection

First declension.

References

• dragma in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• DRAGMA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin dragmam, accusative of dragma, from Ancient Greek δραχμή ‎(drakhmḗ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdraɣ.ma]

Noun

dragma f (plural dragmas)

1. drachma (coin and unit of measure)
   • c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 8v.

     […] si dieré del poluo della a beuer peſante de quatro dragmas al q́ a dolor en el eſtentino a que llaman colon ſana luego.

     […] if they were to give four drachmas of weight of it powdered to drink to someone whose gut, the one they call colon, ached, he would be cured.

   • Idem, f. 79r.

     La ſegunda es q́ ſi beuiere oḿe della peſo duna dragma purga melanconia temprada miente ¬ bien.

     The second is that if one were to drink of it the weight of one drachma, it purges black bile soon and well.