arrha , ae, f., and arrhabo (also without aspiration arra and arrabo ), onis, m. (the latter form ante-class.; cf. Gell. 17, 2, 21; in Cic. the word is never used), = arrabôn [from the Heb. from , to give security], the money given to ratify a contract , earnest-money , purchase-money , a pledge , an earnest ( arrha is a part of the purchase-money, while pignus is a pledge to be restored when the contract, for security of which it is given, Las been performed, Isid. Orig. 5, 25).
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