solidus

Origin: From , from classical , see below. . In numismatic and weight senses, via medieval , from . In chemical sense, via , coined by H.W.B. Roozeboom in his 1899 Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, Stöchiometrie, und Verwandtschaftslehre (XXX, page 387). In typography, from the shilling mark originally being an abbreviation (a long s ⟨ſ⟩), of Medieval Latin solidus meaning shilling. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).