aes

American  

[eez] / iz /

noun

1. any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.

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Etymology

Origin of aes

< Latin: copper, bronze, money made from them, money in general; ore

Example Sentences

The NSA decrypts 256bit aes encryption all the time, it takes a few days with massvely parallel clusters but, it can be done in a reasonable amount of time.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2016

And so these images of him would have their effect on the aes thetic of the happening in the '60s, as on avant-garde dance in the '70s.

From Time Magazine Archive

In later times, pay was substituted for the aes hordearium, three times as much as that of the infantry.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

By the Greeks and Romans both the metal and its alloys were indifferently known as χαλκός and aes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various

So far the words χαλκός and aes may be translated as bronze.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various