euro

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjʊəɹəʊ/

• Audio (UK):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈjʊɹoʊ/, /ˈjɝoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ʊəɹəʊ, -ʊɹoʊ

Etymology 1

The name euro was the winner of a contest open to the general public to propose names for the new European currency, and as such is technically a neologism, although it obviously alludes to the common root of geographical names for the continent Europe, derived from Latin Europa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē), the name in Greek mythology of a princess, abducted by Zeus as a bull across the Bosporus. According to the official story, the term was coined by Belgian teacher and esperantist Germain Pirlot in 1995, who suggested it in a letter to Jacques Santer, then President of the European Commission.

Etymology 2

From Adnyamathanha yuru, thuru.

Further reading

• euro on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “euro” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

Anagrams

• ouer, roué, ureo-

Alternative forms

• yuru

Noun

euro

1. wallaroo, euro

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈɛw.ɾu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈɛw.ɾo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈew.ɾo]

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Noun

euro m (plural euros)

1. euro (currency)

Further reading

• “euro” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “euro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “euro” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Etymology

Borrowed from English euro.

Noun

euro m (plural euroyow)

1. euro (currency)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛu̯ro]

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Noun

euro n

1. euro (currency)

   Synonyms: éčko, euráč

Further reading

• “euro”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

Etymology

Clipping of europæisk (“European”), introduced in 1995.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /øvro/, [ˈœwʁo], (regional) IPA^(key): /ɔjro/, [ˈʌjʁo], IPA^(key): /evro/, [ˈewʁo], (proscribed) IPA^(key): /jurov/, [ˈjuɹɔw]

Noun

euro c (singular definite euroen, plural indefinite euroer or euro)

1. euro (currency)

Further reading

• euro on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Etymology

International coinage, from euro- and Europa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈøːroː/

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• Hyphenation: eu‧ro

Noun

euro f or m (plural euro's, diminutive eurootje n)

1. euro (currency)

   Die broek kost tachtig euro.

   These pants cost eighty euros.

   Hij heb vijftien euri betaald daaro.

   He paid fifteen euros over there.

2. a euro (a coin of that currency)

   Heb jij twee euro's voor de automaat?

   Do you have two euro coins for the machine?

Etymology

From English euro. By surface analysis, clipping of Euroopa (“Europe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeu̯ro/, [ˈeu̯ro]
• Rhymes: -euro
• Hyphenation: eu‧ro

Noun

euro (genitive euro, partitive eurot)

1. euro (currency)

   Synonym: (colloquial) eur

References

• euro in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “euro”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Etymology

Internationalism. See English euro for more. By surface analysis, clipping of Eurooppa (“Europe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeu̯ro/, [ˈe̞u̯ro̞]
• Rhymes: -euro
• Hyphenation^(key): eu‧ro

Noun

euro

1. euro (currency)

Further reading

• “euro”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ø.ʁo/

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• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

euro m (plural euros)

1. euro (currency)

   Synonym: balle

   • 2020 June 19, “Stopper la haine sur Internet”, in Le Monde‎:

     Ce texte, qui devait entrer en vigueur à partir du 1er juillet, créait une obligation pour les plates-formes et les moteurs de recherche de retirer sous vingt-quatre heures – et même dans l’heure pour les images pédopornographiques et l’apologie du terrorisme – les contenus « manifestement illicites » qui leur sont signalés, sous peine d’amendes pouvant aller jusqu’à 1,25 million d’euros.

     This text, which will become enforced beginning at the 1st of July, creats an obligation for platforms and search engines to remove in under twenty-four hours — and even within the hour for pedophilic pornography and justifications of terrorism — "manifestly illegal" contents of which they are alerted, under penalty of fines which can go up to 1.25 million euros.

Anagrams

• roue, roué

Pronunciation

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Noun

euro m (plural euros)

1. euro (currency)

Etymology

Borrowed from English euro, French euro, German Euro, Italian euro, Russian е́вро (jévro), Spanish euro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛu̯.ro/

Noun

euro (plural euros or euro-i or euri)

1. (numismatics) euro