triobolar
English
Alternative forms
- triobolary
Etymology
Late Latin triobolaris, from Latin triobolus (“a coin worth three oboli”), from Ancient Greek τρῐώβολον (triṓbolon).
Adjective
triobolar (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Of the value of three oboli; mean; worthless.
- c. 1647, Jasper Mayne, Sermon against False Prophets
- It may pass current […] for a triobolar ballad.
- c. 1647, Jasper Mayne, Sermon against False Prophets
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for triobolar in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)