euro
/ˈjʊɹoʊ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.09 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A coin with a face value of one euro.
noun
Abbreviation of European, in any sense.
noun
Alternative spelling of euro, the currency and coin introduced 1999.
noun
The UEFA European Football Championship, a European football competition held between the international teams of Europe every four years.
Example Sentences
- "euro size"
- "euro style pad"
- "England could have met world and European champions Spain but that eventuality was avoided by Sweden's 2-0 win against France, and Rooney's first goal in a major tournament since scoring twice in the 4-2 victory over Croatia in Lisbon at Euro 2004."
- "Gee, you mean that a Euro cannot have an email account elsewhere. I guess my account in France makes me French when I use it from Paris?"
Etymology
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.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈjʊɹoʊ/
- British English: /ˈjʊəɹəʊ/