dragme (s.xiiiin)

dragme (s.xiiiin)

  FEW:  drachma 3,150a Gdf: GdfC:  dragme 9,414a TL: drame 2,2059 DEAF:  drame  DMF:  drachme  TLF:  drachme  OED:  drachm n.  MED:  dragme n.  DMLBS:  drachma 726a
drame  

s.

1curr.finan.hist.drachma, principal coin of the ancient Greeks
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Del suen mil dragmes lui dunat  6351
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  U quele femme ad drames dis, Si en perd une de nul pris, Dun alume sa lucerne [...] ?  126rb17
( 1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  En I'evangile qant je lis Comment la femme ert conjoys, Sa dragme qant avoit perdu Et retrové  12927
2unitweightpharm.apothecary's weight equivalent to a drachma or dirham, usually one eighth of an ounce
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  semence de letuse, semence de endive, de chescune treis dragmes  i 71
( MS: c.1300 )  saffran une drame, grumil [...]  328.15
( MS: s.xivin )  de gilofre deus dragmes; comyn, un unce  71.42
( MS: s.xv )  Pernetz de grece de cat dragmes .ij., e de grece de gopyl dragmes .ij.  117.E1
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
dragme