Meaning

11 senses
  1. Various medieval and early modern coins or units of account

    (historical)A Roman ~23k gold coin introduced by Diocletian in AD 301 and called by that name, but reissued at a slightly lower weight by Constantine I.

  2. (historical)Its successor Byzantine coins, from the eleventh century onward of progressively debased weight and purity.

  3. (historical)The weight of the Roman gold coin, 1/60 of a Roman pound under Diocletian or 1/72 lb. (about 4.5 grams) after Constantine.

    Solidus

    со́лидsólid

  4. (historical)A medieval French weight, 1/20 of the Carolingian pound.

  5. Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩, originally (UK) in its use as the shilling mark and now its formal designation by the ISO and Unicode.

  6. The formal name of the oblique strikethrough overlay (as in A̷ and B̸) in Unicode.

  7. The division line between the numerator and the denominator of a fraction, whether horizontal or oblique.

  8. The line in a phase diagram marking the temperatures and pressures below which a given substance is a stable solid.

  9. Various medieval and early modern coins or units of account

    (historical, obsolete)Synonym of sol or sou: a Carolingian unit of account equivalent to a solidus of silver.

  10. (historical, obsolete)Synonym of soldo: the silver coins of various Italian states.

  11. (historical, obsolete)Synonym of shilling: an English unit of account and, following the Tudor dynasty, silver coin.

More definitions
  • a punctuation mark (‘/’) used to separate related items of information
  • a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
Roman gold coin:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
Roman gold coin:

Origin

From Middle English solidus, from classical Latin solidus (“solid”), see below. Doublet of

From Middle English solidus, from classical Latin solidus (“solid”), see below. Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solid, sou, and xu.

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Forms

plural: solidi / soliduses
Singularsolidus
Pluralsolidi / soliduses

regular

Synonyms

16 synonyms
debased Byzantine successors:nomismahyperpyronbezant
typographic symbols:slash and strikethrough
Close in meaning

Word family

13 related words

See also

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