denier

Borrowed from French denier, from Latin dēnārius. Doublet of denar, denarius, dinar, diner, dinero, and dinheiro.

• enPR: dənyā'
• enPR: dənî(r)', IPA^(key): /dəˈnɪə(ɹ)/ (coin)
• enPR: dĕn'yə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈdɛnɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈdɛnɪeɪ/ (unit of fineness of yarn)

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

denier (plural deniers)

1. (historical) An old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou.
   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 117:

     A bronze denier bearing the inscription CONRADUS around a central cross, was minted in Lugdunum.

2. A unit of linear density which indicates the fineness of fiber or yarn, equal to one gram per 9000 meters, used especially to measure or indicate the fineness of hosiery. Originally equal to the weight of a denier coin per 9600 aunes.
   • 2002, Jill Mansell, Staying at Daisy's:

     Upstairs she rummaged through her chest of drawers, finally unearthing an unopened pack of ten denier barely blacks.

• → Japanese: デニール (denīru)
• → Korean: 데니어 (denieo)

• tex

From deny + -er.

• enPR: dĭnī'ə(r), IPA^(key): /dɪˈnaɪə(ɹ)/

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denier (plural deniers)

1. One who denies or forbids something.
   • 2003, ABA Journal, volume 89:

     Also, visitation deniers don't always get off with a slap on the wrist.

2. One who denies the existence of something.

   Holocaust denier

   global warming denier

   AIDS denier

   • 2024 January 16, Rachel Ramirez, “What is ‘new denial?’ An alarming wave of climate misinformation is spreading on YouTube, watchdog says”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     These are all false and misleading statements taken from a handful of thousands of YouTube videos analyzed by the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which has identified a stark change in the tactics of climate deniers over the past few years.

   • 2024 April 19, Aaron Pellish, “RFK Jr.’s onetime allies in environmental advocacy call for him to drop out”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is not an environmentalist. He is a dangerous conspiracy theorist and science denier whose agenda would be a disaster for our communities and the planet,” the letter reads.

• climate denier
• self-denier

• denialism
• denialist

• renied, reined, Nereid, Neider, Edirne, nereid, Nieder, diener

From French denier.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdenier/, [ˈde̞nie̞r]
• Rhymes: -enier
• Syllabification^(key): de‧ni‧er
• Hyphenation^(key): de‧ni‧er

denier

1. denier (unit of measure)
2. denier (old coin)

• “denier”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• dreeni, reiden

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French denier, inherited from Latin dēnārius. Doublet of dénaire.

• IPA^(key): /də.nje/

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• Hyphenation: de‧nier

denier m (plural deniers)

1. denier (coin)
2. denier (unit of weight)
3. (by extension, often in the plural) money

   Synonym: argent

• denrée

• → English: denier (see there for further descendants)
• → Finnish: denier
• → Romanian: denier
• → Russian: денье́ (denʹjé)
• → Swedish: denier

• “denier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• de rien

From Old French denier, Latin dēnārius.

denier m (plural deniers)

1. denier (coin)

• French: denier (see there for further descendants)

From Latin dēnārius.

denier oblique singular, m (oblique plural deniers, nominative singular deniers, nominative plural denier)

1. denier (coin)

• Middle French: denier
  • French: denier (see there for further descendants)

Borrowed from French denier.

denier m (plural denieri)

1. denier (weight)

denier c

1. denier

• diener