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    Obol (coin) (redirect from Obelos)
    Obols through history The obol (Greek: ὀβολός, obolos, also ὀβελός (obelós), ὀβελλός (obellós), ὀδελός (odelós). lit. "nail, metal spit"; Latin: obolus)...
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  • (limited geographical area of use) The word "obelus" comes from ὀβελός (obelós), the Ancient Greek word for a sharpened stick, spit, or pointed pillar...
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    (/ˈɒbəlɪsk/; from Ancient Greek ὀβελίσκος (obelískos), diminutive of ὀβελός (obelós) 'spit, nail, pointed pillar') is a tall, slender, tapered monument with...
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    (for "Delete"). The obelos symbol (see obelus) gets its name from the spit, or sharp end of a lance in ancient Greek. An obelos was placed by editors...
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  • Greek: ὀβελίσκος (obeliskos), which means "little obelus"; from ὀβελός (obelos) meaning 'roasting spit'. Partridge, Eric (2004) [1953]. You Have a Point...
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  • U+2E11 Po, other Common ⸒ HYPODIASTOLE U+2E12 Po, other Common ⸓ DOTTED OBELOS U+2E13 Po, other Common ⸔ DOWNWARDS ANCORA U+2E14 Po, other Common ⸕ UPWARDS...
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    Homer in Iliad (1.465) mentions pieces of meat roasted on spits (ὀβελός, obelós). In Classical Greece, a small spit or skewer was known as ὀβελίσκος (obeliskos)...
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  • Norris as Wil Jerome Arnold as Campaign Worker Pemon Rami as Campaign Worker Obelo as Campaign Worker Ira Rogers as Stalker Kristine Cameron as Instructress...
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  • omit, oppose, ostensible, ostentatious obel- spit, nail Greek ὀβελός (obelós), ὀβελίσκος (obelískos) metobelus, obelisk, obelism, obelus obol- Greek...
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    diminutive "obelisk", "little spit"), the word obol (ὀβολός, obolós, or ὀβελός, obelós) was retained as a Greek word for coins of small value, still used as such...
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