bezant
bezant · bezants
A coin made of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium and used in currency throughout…A coin made of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium and used in currency throughout mediaeval Europe.
/ˈbɛzənt/
Meaning
2 sensesA coin made of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium and used in currency throughout mediaeval Europe.
a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages
A roundel or (that is, a golden circle), the heraldic representation of a gold coin.
Translations
4 languagesOrigin
From Middle English besaunt, from Old French bezant, nominative bezanz, from Latin byzantiFrom Middle English besaunt, from Old French bezant, nominative bezanz, from Latin byzantius (“of Byzantium”).
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source