adjective
sēmuncĭārĭus
Meaning
- amounting to a half-ounce
sēmuncĭārĭus, a, um, adj. id.,
I. amounting to a half-ounce (one twentyfourth of an as): semunciarium tantum ex unciario faenus factum, one twenty-fourth of an as upon each as, for a year of ten months, or, acc. to our mode of computation, five per cent. for a full year, Liv. 7, 27, 3; cf. id. 7, 16, 1:
asses, weighing half an ounce, Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 46 Jahn.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
sēmūnciārius adj.
semuncia, amounting to a half-ounce : faenus, one twenty-fourth part of an as upon each as, for a year of ten months , i. e. five per cent. for a full year , L.