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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages [syn: bezant, bezzant, byzant, solidus]
2: a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information [syn: solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural solidi) Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin, from Latin, solid Date: 14th century 1. an ancient Roman gold coin introduced by Constantine and used to the fall of the Byzantine Empire 2. [Medieval Latin, shilling, from Late Latin; from its use as a symbol for shillings] slash 4

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. solidi) 1 an oblique stroke (/) used in writing fractions (3/4), to separate other figures and letters, or to denote alternatives (and/or) and ratios (miles/day). 2 (in full solidus curve) a curve in a graph of the temperature and composition of a mixture, below which the substance is entirely solid. 3 hist. a gold coin of the later Roman Empire. Etymology: ME (in sense 3) f. L: see SOLID