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thrym•sa
(thrim′zə, -sə),USA pronunciation n.
- Currencya coin of Anglo-Saxon England.
- Late Latin tremis a coin, equivalent. to Latin trē(s) three + -mis, as in semis semis
- Old English, alteration of trymesa (by influence of thrīe three), genitive plural of trymes
- borrowed by 17th-century antiquarians bef. 1000