dodrans

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dōdrāns.

Noun

dodrans (plural dodrantes)

1. (historical, numismatics) A bronze coin of the Roman Republic, worth three quarters of an as.

Latin

Etymology

Contraction of dequadrans from dē- (of-) +‎ quadrāns (fourth)

Noun

dōdrāns f (genitive dōdrantis); third declension

1. three-quarters (nine-twelfths) (especially of a foot, or of an hour)
2. A book of debts introduced by the lex Valeria feneratoria

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	dōdrāns	dōdrantēs
genitive	dōdrantis	dōdrantium
dative	dōdrantī	dōdrantibus
accusative	dōdrantem	dōdrantēs dōdrantīs
ablative	dōdrante	dōdrantibus
vocative	dōdrāns	dōdrantēs

References

• “dodrans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dodrans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dodrans in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• dodrans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • sole heir; heir to three-quarters of the estate: heres ex asse, ex dodrante
    
• “dodrans”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dodrans”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin