triobolar

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Late Latin triobolaris, from Latin triobolus (“a coin worth three oboli”), from Ancient Greek τρῐώβολον (trĭṓbolon). Literally, "having the value of three oboli".

Adjective

triobolar (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Mean; worthless.
    • c. 1647, Jasper Mayne, Sermon against False Prophets:
      It may pass current […] for a triobolar ballad.

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.