An alternative Greek plural form of drachma, used in some classical and scholarly texts to refer to multiple drachma coins or units.
A Greek plural form of drachma, reflecting how the word would have been pluralized in ancient Greek itself rather than in Latin. This form appears in older English texts that maintained Greek morphology rather than Latinizing the plural.
The existence of both 'drachmae' and 'drachmai' as competing plurals shows how English borrowed from both Latin and Greek scholars at different times in history—it's linguistic archaeology hiding in plural forms!
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