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单词 stater
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statern.1

Brit. /ˈsteɪtə/, /ˈstatɛː/, U.S. /ˈsteɪdər/, /ˈstæˌtɛ(ə)r/
Inflections: Plural staters, stateres Brit. /staˈtɛːriːz/, U.S. /stæˈtɛriz/.
Forms: Middle English–1600s statere, Middle English– stater.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin stater.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin stater silver coin worth four drachmas, shekel (Vulgate), a weight (5th cent.), half an ounce (6th cent. in Boethius, a636 in Isidore) < ancient Greek στατήρ weight, any of various ancient coins < στα- , stem of ἱστάναι to stand (see stand v.), in the sense ‘to weigh’ + -τήρ, suffix forming agent nouns. Compare Middle French statre (a1485), Middle French, French †statere (1378), French stater (18th cent.).In plural form stateres after post-classical Latin stateres, plural of stater. It is uncertain whether this word or Anglo-Norman statere (see statera n.) is reflected by the surnames Stater, le Stater, Statere, le Statere (all 13th cent.).
Ancient History.
1. Any of various ancient gold or silver coins; esp. the tetradrachm.Frequently in translations of, or with reference to, Matthew 17:27.See W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Antiq. (1842) (at cited word) for a full description of the various coins to which the term was applied.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > classical coins > [noun] > ancient Greek
obolOE
drachmc1384
mnamc1400
dramc1440
mina1495
groat1526
didrachm1548
drachma1579
obolus1579
tetradrachm1579
obole1598
philippic1651
stater1685
tetrobol1693
tridrachm1771
pentadrachm1827
triobol1837
octadrachm1848
decadrachm1856
lepton1877
dodecadrachm1881
diobol1887
trihemiobol1887
distater1895
hemiobol1921
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xvii. 26 His [sc. the fish's] mouth openyd, thou shalt fynde stater [L. staterem], that is, a certeyn of moneye.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. ccijv/2 Saynt Peter..fond the statere or piece of money in the fisshes mouth.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 213 A poore man..sold all that he had, whereof he made about a hundred stateres.
1685 J. Newman tr. Xenophon Hist. Affairs of Greece sig. a8v Note that the Stater mentioned in the First Book, ought..to be understood of the Silver Coin, which Scaliger values at Four Drachmas,..than of the Golden Coin, which W. Snellius prizes at 25 Drachma's.
1742 H. Fielding & W. Young tr. Aristophanes Plutus iv. i. 79 We Servants now play at Even and Odd with Golden Staters.
1771 M. Raper Anc. Money in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 61 480 The silver Stater, or Tetradrachm, is the most common Attic coin now remaining.
1854 J. D. Burns Vision Prophecy 49 A fish to Peter's hook the Stater brings.
1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 216 The penalty was fixed at a stater. [Note] If the gold stater, about 16s.; if the silver Athenian stater, about 3s. 3d.; if the silver Corinthian stater (ten Aeginetan obols), about 2s. 2d.
1927 Rotarian June 53/3 (advt.) Stater of Miletus, 9th centy. B.C. First officially coined money.
1988 J. MacArthur Matthew 16–23 89 Because there was no two-drachma coin, it was customary for two Jewish men to pay the tax together, using a stater.
2007 P. Ceccarelli & S. Milanezi in P. Wilson Greek Theatre & Festivals 205 In the Cyrenean monetary system, thirteen stateres are the equivalent of fifty-two drachmas.
2. A unit of weight equal to a fraction of an ounce (see also quot. 1706).According to Isidore Origines 16. 25 the unit weighed half an ounce. In antiquity it weighed variously 2, 3, or 4 drachms (i.e. ¼, ⅜, or ½ ounce, approx. 7.1, 10.6, and 14.2 grams).
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > units in ancient Greece, Asia Minor, etc.
talentc893
scriplea1382
minaa1398
mnaa1398
statera1398
mina1495
shekel1560
siglos1911
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxx. 1385 Siclus is þe fourþe part of an vnce and half a stater.
a1425 (c1384) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Ezek. iv. 10 Thi meet..shal be in weiȝt twenti stateris [1611 King James shekels (lit. from Hebrew), Gk. σίκλους, L. stateres] that is, ten owncis.
1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum 419 Two sextules maketh Dulca, & three maketh Stater.
1631 tr. J. A. Comenius Porta Linguarum Reserata lxxv. §767 A statere is a weauers or clothiers pound to be carried.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Stater, Among Apothecaries, a weight of an Ounce and a Half.
1725 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum (ed. 4) I. sig. 5R3/2 The Italian Pound is generally divided into 12 Ounces, 1 Ounce into 2 Staters, and 1 Stater into 4 Drachms.
1729 G. Shelvocke, Jr. tr. K. Siemienowicz Great Art Artillery i. x. 32 Villalpandus..maintains that the Shekel was but of one kind, which was equal Value with the Athenian Stater.
1875 W. S. Jevons Money ix. 89 Units of weight, such as the shekel, the talent, the as, the stater, the libra, the mark, the franc, the lira.
1896 A. Austin England's Darling ii. i. 33 They won't starve, anyhow. Ten score ambers have been lodged in the King's Barn..along with two dozen staters of cheese.
2006 tr. in R. S. Bagnall & R. Cribiore Women's Lett. from Anc. Egypt 154 You gave half a pound and 2 drachmas of weight for the white gown on which account you spend one pound and a stater of weight.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

statern.2

Brit. /ˈsteɪtə/, U.S. /ˈsteɪdər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: state v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < state v. + -er suffix1.
A person who states something (in various senses of the verb); a person who makes a statement or statements. Chiefly with of.average-stater: see the first element.
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the mind > language > statement > [noun] > one who
supposer1552
advancer1588
stater1671
1671 R. Baxter Second Admon. E. Bagshaw 105 I was the stater of the Question, and did not referr it to you to state it.
1688 Bp. J. Williams Pulpit Popery, True Popery (title page) The Stater of the Controversie against the Representer.
1702 R. Crosfeild Affections of People 6 Those Gentlemen that were then the Publick Staters of Accounts.
1764 Postscript Let. Libels 3 I do not think a stater of facts, from whence a bad character issues, is a calumniator, but an historian.
1820 Countess Granville Let. 6 Sept. (1894) I. 179 It is of no use what is stated when people are resolved not to believe the staters.
1872 Weekly Reporter 23 Mar. 452/1 In the general average must be put..the fees of Chancery, the fees of the legal adviser and compiler of several acts, the fees of the judicial staters, [etc.].
1920 Joint Comm. Unification Methodist Episcopal Church II. 421 Kipling..is one of the most expert staters of things who writes.
2010 G. Dark Man New Millennium vii. 124 ‘Yes,’ Rafael returns, as if replying to a stater of the obvious.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Statern.3

Brit. /ˈsteɪtə/, U.S. /ˈsteɪdər/
Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: state n., -er suffix1; Free Stater n.
Etymology: Either < state n. + -er suffix1, or shortened < Free Stater n.
Now historical.
A supporter of the Irish Free State of 1922–37; a member of the Irish Free State army. Cf. Free Stater n.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > Irish
Stater1925
1925 S. O'Casey Juno & Paycock iii. 111 Ah, why didn't I remember that then he wasn't a Die-hard or a Stater, but only a poor dead son!
1936 ‘N. Blake’ Thou Shell of Death xiii. 239 During the Civil War..the Staters and the Republicans had a battle in the garden.
1965 L. Fleming Head or Harp x. 83 The streets themselves were full of ‘Staters’.
2005 M. Grene in M. H. Mutran & L. P. Z. Izarra Irish Stud. in Brazil 77 When it came to the row over The Plough the battle-lines were drawn between Staters and Republicans.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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