triobolar

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Late Latin triobolaris, from Latin triobolus (“a coin worth three oboli”), from Ancient Greek τρῐώβολον (triṓbolon).

Adjective

triobolar (not comparable)

  1. (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.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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