solidus

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

1. (historical) Various medieval and early modern coins or units of account
2. (historical) Various medieval and early modern coins or units of account
3. (historical, obsolete) Various medieval and early modern coins or units of account
4. (historical, obsolete) Various medieval and early modern coins or units of account
5. (historical, obsolete) Various medieval and early modern coins or units of account
6. (historical) The weight of the Roman gold coin, 1/60 of a Roman pound under Diocletian or 1/72 lb. (about 4.5 grams) after Constantine.
7. (historical) A medieval French weight, 1/20 of the Carolingian pound.
8. Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩, originally (UK) in its use as the shilling mark and now its formal designation by the ISO and Unicode.
9. The formal name of the oblique strikethrough overlay (as in A̷ and B̸) in Unicode.
10. The division line between the numerator and the denominator of a fraction, whether horizontal or oblique.
11. The line in a phase diagram marking the temperatures and pressures below which a given substance is a stable solid.

Συνώνυμα

virgule

slash

diagonal

bezant

byzant

separatrix

bezzant

stroke

denarius

solidus curve

slant

oblique stroke

fraction bar

shilling mark

shilling stroke

forward slash

fraction

Μεταφράσεις

solidus

Schrägstrich

ophaal

Solidus

coup

diagonale

barre oblique

besant

soldius

barra

solido

bisante

segno di frazione

breukstreep

schuine streep

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈsɑlɪdəs/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

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In summary

From Middle English solidus, from classical Latin solidus (“solid”), see below. Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solid, sou, and xu.
In numismatic and weight senses, via medieval Latin solidus (“various coins”), from Late Latin solidus (“a gold coin of the Roman Empire”). In chemical sense, via German Solidus, coined by H.W.B. Roozeboom in his 1899 Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, Stöchiometrie, und Verwandtschaftslehre (XXX, page 387).
In typography, from the shilling mark originally being an abbreviation (a long s ⟨ſ⟩), of Medieval Latin solidus meaning shilling.