bezant

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English besaunt, from Old French bezant, nominative bezanz, from Latin byzantius (“of Byzantium”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbɛzənt/

Noun

bezant (plural bezants)

  1. (history) A coin made of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium and used in currency throughout mediaeval Europe.
    Synonym: solidus
  2. (heraldry) A roundel or (that is, a golden circle), the heraldic representation of a gold coin.
    • 1941 December, “The Why and the Wherefore: Cornish names of G.W.R. locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 575:
      One and All is the motto of the County of Cornwall, used below the coat-of-arms, which is a shield embracing fifteen bezants, or golden roundels, on a black ground; [...].

Translations

See also
metals main colours less common colours
tincture orargentgulesazuresablevertpurpuretennéorangesanguine
depiction
roundel (in parentheses: semé):
bezant (bezanty)
plate (platy)
torteau (tortelly)
hurt (hurty)
pellet (pellety), ogress
pomme


golpe (golpy)
orange (semé of oranges)
guze (semé of guzes)
goutte (noun) / gutty (adj) thereof:
(goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold)
d'eau (of water)
de sang (of blood)
de larmes (of tears)
de poix

(of pitch)
d'huile / d'olive (olive oil)



special roundel furs additional, uncommon tinctures:
tincture fountain, syke: barry wavy argent and azureermineermines, counter-ermineerminoispeanvaircounter-vairpotentcounter-potentbleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey
depiction

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch besant, from Old French bezant, from Latin byzantius.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bəˈzɑnt/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: be‧zant
  • Rhymes: -ɑnt

Noun

bezant m (plural bezanten, diminutive bezantje n)

  1. bezant (coin)
  2. (heraldry) bezant

French

Pronunciation

Noun

bezant m (plural bezants)

  1. bezant (coin)

Further reading

Old French

Noun

bezant oblique singular, m (oblique plural bezanz or bezantz, nominative singular bezanz or bezantz, nominative plural bezant)

  1. bezant (coin)
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