didrachm

[dahy-dram]

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noun

a silver coin of ancient Greece equal to two drachmas.

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[dahy-drak-muh] /daɪˈdræk mə/.

Origin of didrachm

1540–50; < Late Latin didrāchmon < Greek dídrachmon worth two drachms. See di-¹, drachma

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