Dine

Morpheme

Dine

Type

bound base

Denotation

unit of currency; literally ten each, tenth

Etymology

variant of <Dene>; (1) Spanish dinero; Old Spanish dinero; Vulgar Latin *dīnārius and (2) Catalan diner; Vulgar Latin *dīnārius and (3) Arabic dīnār Serbo-Croatian dȉnār; all from Latin dēnārius, from dēnus + -ārius, from decem +‎ -nus

Evidence

dinar, dinarization, dinars, diner, dinero, diners

Notes

dinar, diner, dinero, denarius, denar, denier, and dinheiro are doublets

See Also

Dec(e) [Dece, Dec], Dene, Dinh

Homographs

Dine, Dine, D(e)in(e) [Dine, Din, Dein]

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