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
And every city of the Roman empire could testify to the truth of what he added: “Sed vobis maximum discrimen penes quos aurum et opes, præcipuæ bellorum causæ.”
From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
Upon the table in our room I found in the morning a slip of paper, on which Dr Johnson had written with his pencil these words: Quantum cedat virtutibus aurum.
From The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell
But the word is evidently αυρον—the Lat. aurum, "gold."
From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by John Willcock
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