sceat

发音

其它 /ʃæt/

词形变化

sceats 复数 sceats

别名

sceatt sceatta

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A small Anglo-Saxon coin, especially one made of silver; sometimes regarded as a weight (and thus a comparative measure of a coin's value).

    历史

    1840, Ancient Laws and Institutes of England, Volume 2, Commissioners on the Public Records of the Kingdom, unnumbered page, In the Anglo-Saxon laws there is no passage from which the value of the ‘sceat’ can be ascertained with certainty, though from some places in the laws of Ethelbirht it would appear, that, in Kent at least, 20 sceats were equal to 1 scilling.

词源

Learned borrowing from Old English sceatt.

来源：wiktionary