coin (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. nūmus or nummus2. stips, stĭpis, f. (usu. a small c.)3. nŭmisma (Gr. νόμισμα), ătis, n.4. mŏnēta • coin (subs.): 1. nūmus or nummus: counterfeit c., adulterini n., Cic. (esp. used of the silver coin, numus sestertius, the sesterce: also for money generally: q. v.) Dimin. nūmŭlus, a small coin: Cic. 2. stips, stĭpis, f. (usu. a small c.): to fling in gold and silver c.s at laying the foundation of a building, injicere fundamentis argenti aurique stipes, Tac. H. 4, 53 (but stips is said to have meant originally a copper c.: cf. Ov. F. 2, 189): Plin. 3. nŭmisma (Gr. νόμισμα), ătis, n.: Philips, royal c., Philippos., regale n., Hor.: Mart.: in later writers esp. of foreign or rare coins; in which sense the word is used in modern Latin: Eckhel, Doct. Num. 4. mŏnēta: never used of a single coin: v. money. Phr.: to pay any one in his own c., eum qui laeserit, simili multare, Phaedr. 1, 26: par pari (al. pro pari) referre, Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 55.