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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dōdrāns.

Noun

dodrans (plural dodrantes)

  1. (historical, numismatics) A bronze coin of the Roman Republic, worth three quarters of an as.

Latin

Etymology

Contraction of dequadrans from dē- (of-) + quadrāns (fourth)

Noun

dōdrāns f (genitive dōdrantis); third declension

  1. three-quarters (nine-twelfths) (especially of a foot, or of an hour)
  2. A book of debts introduced by the lex Valeria feneratoria

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

References

  • dodrans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dodrans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "dodrans", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • dodrans”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • sole heir; heir to three-quarters of the estate: heres ex asse, ex dodrante
  • dodrans”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dodrans”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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