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nummular

Syllables: num·mul·ar/ˈnʌmjʊlə/US/ˈnʌmjʊlɚ/

nummular adjective: of or relating to coins or money.

Adjective

nummular (comparative more nummular, superlative most nummular)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Of or relating to coins or money.
  2. (broadly) Characterized by lesions (especially on the cornea or skin) which are round with well-defined borders.
    Synonyms:
    coinlike
  3. (broadly, obsolete) Of sputum: forming flat, round shapes (formerly thought to be a symptom of tuberculosis).
    • NUMMULAR […] An epithet applied to the sputa in phthisis, when they flatten at the bottom of the vessel, like a piece of money.[1839, Robley Dunglison, “NUMMULAR”, in Medical Lexicon. A New Dictionary of Medical Science, […], 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, successors to Carey and Co., →OCLC, page 421...

nummular meaning in Tamil and Urdu

nummular in Tamil

காசனைய, காசன்ன, நாணயம் உரு, வட்டவில்லை, வட்டு உரு, வில்லைச்சரம் உரு

nummular in Urdu

سکہ نما

Synonyms of nummular

All synonyms of nummular

Forms of nummular

comparativemore nummular
superlativemost nummular

Origin of nummular

From Latin nummulus (“(small amount of) money”) + English -ar (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of, pertaining to, or near’). Nummulus is the diminutive of nummus (“a coin; piece of money”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix); while nummus is from Doric Greek νοῦμμος (noûmmos), from Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos, “kind of coin”), from νέμω (némō, “to deal out, dispense, distribute”) (from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to distribute; to give; to take”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming nouns).

Questions about nummular

What does nummular mean?
Nummular means of or relating to coins or money.
What is nummular in Tamil?
Nummular in Tamil is காசனைய, காசன்ன, நாணயம் உரு. See Nummular meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nummular?
Nummular is an adjective.
How do you pronounce nummular?
Nummular is pronounced /ˈnʌmjʊlə/ (UK).

Words near nummular in the dictionary

  1. nummier
  2. nummiest
  3. nummiform
  4. nummud
  5. nummuds
  6. nummular
  7. nummulary
  8. nummulated
  9. nummulation
  10. nummulations
  11. nummuliform

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nummular (page history and authors); nummular (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nummular (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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