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Added 9 October 2026

nummular

/ˈnʌmjʊlə/ adjective

In Latin: nummulāris Wiktionary

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Of or relating to coins or money.
Flattened with a rounded form, as a disc; coin-shaped.
Characterized by lesions (especially on the cornea or skin) which are round with well-defined borders.

Origin

From Latin nummulus (“(small amount of) money”) + English -ar (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of, pertaining to, or near’). Nummulus is the diminutive of nummus (“a coin; piece of money”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix); while nummus is from Doric Greek νοῦμμος (noûmmos), from Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos, “kind of coin”), from νέμω (némō, “to deal out, dispense, distribute”) (from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to distribute; to give; to take”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming nouns).

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