lepta
- plural of lepton.
Example Sentences
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One of the women of the cabin I had visited followed me to the museum, and naturally held out her hand for "pende lepta."
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward
A kodrantes is a small coin worth one half of an Attic chalcus or two lepta.
From The World English Bible (WEB): by Anonymous
They hurl at you instead francs, piastres, paras, drachmas, lepta, metalliks, mejidis, centimes, and English shillings.
From With the French in France and Salonika by Davis, Richard Harding
Before the letters came, last evening, we heard continual cries of "Pende lepta," betokening the issue of an extra.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward
The monetary unit is the new drachma, equivalent to the franc, and divided into 440 100 lepta or centimes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
