aurum
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of aurum
1490–1500; < Latin: gold
Example Sentences
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A Unique Approach to Social Play Knightly Adventure encourages social play by rewarding players with experience and aurum for helping out friends.
From Forbes • Nov. 9, 2012
These can all be upgraded and used to produce various goods which can be sold for aurum.
From Forbes • Nov. 9, 2012
Thus Statius: Ditantur flammæ: non unquam opulentioan ille ante cinis: crepitant gemmæ: atque immane litescit argentum, et pietis exsudat vestibus aurum.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
Cumque lacessitus Roluonis classe fuisset, Egestum cistis aurum deferre ministros Iussit, et in primas urbis diffundere portas.
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.
But the word is evidently αυρον—the Lat. aurum, "gold."
From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John
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