tremissis

tremissis
/tri mis"is/, n., pl. tremisses /-mis"eez/.
1. Also called triens. a gold coin of the Eastern Roman Empire, the third part of a solidus, first issued in the 3rd century A.D.
2. a Merovingian gold coin imitating this.
[1700-10; < LL tremissis, equiv. to L tre(s) THREE + -missis as in semissis, LL form of L semis SEMIS (falsely analyzed as se- + -missis)]

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