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drach⋅ma

[drak-muh, drahk-]
–noun, plural -mas, -mae [-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, esp. a dram.
Also, drachm.


Origin:
1520–30; < L < Gk drachm, prob. equiv. to drach- base of drássesthai to grasp + -mē n. suffix (hence lit., handful)


drachmal, adjective
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