contorniate
English
Etymology
Italian contorniato, present participle of contorniare (“to make a circuit or outline”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈtɔː(ɹ).ni.ət/
Noun
contorniate (plural contorniates)
- A bronze medal or medallion with a deep furrow on the contour or edge, supposed to have been struck in the days of Constantine and his successors.
- 1864, Reginald Stuart Poole, "The Coins of the Ptolemies" in The numismatic chronicle Volume IV
- Mr. Evans exhibited a fine contorniate, bearing the head of Nero
- 1864, Reginald Stuart Poole, "The Coins of the Ptolemies" in The numismatic chronicle Volume IV
Adjective
contorniate (not comparable)
- Having a furrow of this kind.
- 1888, Archaeologia Cambrensis (page 141)
- […] by its close analogy with a more elaborate composition on a contorniate medal of the same Emperor, which was certainly commemorative of that event.
- 1888, Archaeologia Cambrensis (page 141)
Italian
Verb
contorniate
- second-person plural present subjunctive of contornare
Anagrams
- incerottano, incettarono