euro

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

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

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 Bosphorus.

• Euro (proscribed)

euro (plural euros or euro)

1. The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: €

   Synonym: EUR

2. A coin with a face value of one euro.
3. Abbreviation of European in any sense.

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• The plural recommended for use in official European documents written in English had been euro for some time, but this recommendation has been amended to euros. However, in Irish English the plural euro is now well-established. For further information, see Language and the euro on Wikipedia.

From Adnyamathanha yuru, thuru.

euro (plural euros)

1. Macropus robustus, a wallaroo (macropod species).

• Euro

• euro on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

• ouer, roué, ureo-

• yuru

euro

1. wallaroo, euro

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈɛw.ɾo/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈɛw.ɾu/

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euro m (plural euros)

1. euro (currency)

• “euro” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “euro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “euro” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛu̯ro]

euro n

1. euro (currency)

   Synonyms: éčko, euráč

• euromince
• eurozóna

• euro in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

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

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

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

1. euro (currency)

Amounts are given with the plural indefinite euro.

• euro on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

International coinage, from euro- and Europa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈøːroː/

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• Hyphenation: eu‧ro

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?

Sense 1 has an invariable plural: euro. The plural euri or eurie is sometimes used colloquially.

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IPA^(key): /ˈeu̯ro/, [ˈeu̯ro]

euro (genitive euro, partitive eurot)

1. euro (currency)

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

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

euro

1. euro (currency)

• For the usage with cardinal numbers, see Appendix:Finnish numbers.

• Terms prefixed with euro-.

• IPA^(key): /ø.ʁo/

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euro m (plural euros)

1. euro (currency)
   • 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.

• roue, roué

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euro m (plural euros)

1. euro (currency)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛu̯.ro/

euro (plural euros or euro-i or euri)

1. (numismatics) euro

All currencies in Ido are to be considered as foreign words. Thus, the plural are borrowed as well (euros). Though, because of the frequency of the currency, many treat the word as native (thus the plural form euri).

Borrowed from English euro.

euro

1. euro (currency)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛw.ro/
• Rhymes: -ɛwro
• Hyphenation: èu‧ro

Borrowed from English euro, from eurocurrency.[1]

euro m (usually invariable, plural (nonstandard) euri)

1. euro (currency)

Borrowed from Latin eurus, from Ancient Greek εὖρος (eûros).[2]

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euro m (plural euri)

1. Synonym of scirocco: Eurus (southwest wind)
   • 1321 [1308-1320], Dante, Alighieri, Divina Commedia [Divine Comedy], volume Paradiso (narrative poem, in Italian), Canto VIII, lines 68–69:

     sopra ’l golfo / Che riceve da Euro maggior briga

     above the gulf / Which receives more/the most trouble from Eurus

   • (Can we date this quote?) [1850-1860], Carducci, Giosuè, Juvenilia, volume II (poem, in Italian), XXV. A O. T. T., lines 29–30, page 38:

     i furori / D’euro che gl’ispidi flutti cavalca

     the fury / Of Eurus that the unpopular waves rides

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2. (obsolete, rare) Synonym of levante: levanter (easterly wind)

• ureo

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈeu̯.roː/, [ˈɛu̯roː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈeu̯.ro/, [ˈɛːu̯ro]

eurō

1. dative/ablative singular of eurus

euro m (definite singular euroen, indefinite plural euroer, definite plural euroene) (after a number - euro)

1. euro (monetary unit)

• euromynt
• euroområde
• eurosone

• “euro” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

euro m (definite singular euroen, indefinite plural euroar, definite plural euroane) (after a number - euro)

1. euro (monetary unit)

• euromynt
• euroområde
• eurosone

• “euro” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Internationalism; compare English euro, French euro, German Euro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛw.rɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛwrɔ
• Syllabification: eu‧ro

euro n (indeclinable)

1. euro (currency of the European Monetary Union)

• euro in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• euro in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Clipping of Europa, from Latin Eurōpa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

• Hyphenation: eu‧ro

euro m (plural euros)

1. euro (currency unit of the European Union)

• cêntimo

From French euro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeu̯.ro/

euro m (plural euro)

1. euro (currency)

• èvro (Serbia)

IPA^(key): /euro/

èuro m (Cyrillic spelling ѐуро)

1. euro (currency)

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euro

1. euro

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛu̯rɔ/

euro n (genitive singular eura, nominative plural eurá, genitive plural eur, declension pattern of mesto)

1. euro

• euro in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

• IPA^(key): /ˈeuɾo/ [ˈeu̯.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -euɾo
• Syllabification: eu‧ro

euro m (plural euros)

1. euro (currency)

• eurazo (augmentative)
• eurillo (diminutive)
• eurito (diminutive)

• “euro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• IPA^(key): /¹ɛ͡ɵrʊ/, /¹ɛvrʊ/, (borrowed from English) /¹juːrʊ/

euro c

1. the euro; the currency
2. a euro, coin of that currency

• Hur ska vi hantera euro?, Forskningscentralen för de inhemska språken, February 8, 2007
• euro, Språkrådet

From aur (“gold”) +‎ -o.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈeɨ̯rɔ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈei̯rɔ/

euro (first-person singular present euraf)

1. to gild

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “euro”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies