Middle English dragme, from Anglo-French & Late Latin; Anglo-French, dram, drachma, from Late Latin dragma, from Latin drachma, from Greek drachmē, literally, handful, from drassesthai to grasp
Noun (2)
Armenian, literally, coin, money, ultimately from Greek drachmē drachma
Noun (3)
dynamic + RAM (random-access memory)
First Known Use
Noun (1)
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(2)