Associations to the word «Solidus»

Wiktionary

SOLIDUS, noun. The line between the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.
SOLIDUS, noun. A forward slash or virgule.
SOLIDUS, noun. A late Roman gold coin (after 3rd Century CE); a bezant.
SOLIDUS, noun. (chemistry) (physics) a line, in a phase diagram, below which a given substance is a stable solid and above which solid and liquid are in equilibrium

Dictionary definition

SOLIDUS, noun. A gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages.
SOLIDUS, noun. A punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats