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Meaning of obolus | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. A silver coin minted in Ancient Greece, valued at a sixth of a drachma.
  2. A unit of weight, equal to one-sixth of a drachma.
    historical

Equivalents

Bosanski obole oboli obolo
Deutsch Obolus
Ελληνικά οβολός
Español óbolo obolus
Suomi oboli
Français obole
Hrvatski obole oboli obolo
Italiano obolo
Latina obolus
Nederlands obool
Polski obol
Português óbolo
Русский обол
Српски obole oboli obolo

Examples

“Dav. […] And after that I met the boy of Chremes With fishes, and an obolus of herbs.”
“The Globe editors have marked it with the obolus according to their explanation in the preface: "Whenever a lacuna occurs too great to be filled out with any approach to certainty by conjecture, we have marked the passage with an obolus (†)".”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

Obomber Obon obong Obongo obook OBOR

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