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noun, plural -mas, -mae 
[-mee] .
[-mee] . 1.
a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of modern Greece, equal to 100 lepta. Abbreviation: dr., drch.
2.
the principal silver coin of ancient Greece.
3.
a small unit of weight in ancient Greece, approximately equivalent to the U.S. and British apothecaries' dram.
4.
any of various modern weights, especially a dram.
Also, drachm.
Origin:
1520–30; < Latin < Greek drachmḗ, probably equivalent to drach- base of drássesthai to grasp + -mē noun suffix (hence literally, handful)
1520–30; < Latin < Greek drachmḗ, probably equivalent to drach- base of drássesthai to grasp + -mē noun suffix (hence literally, handful)
Related forms
drach·mal, adjective
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Word Origin & History
drachma
1579, from Gk. drakhme, an Attic coin and weight, probably originally "a handful" (see dram).
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