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 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.

• Euro (proscribed)

euro (plural euros or euro)

2. (numismatics) The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: €

   Synonym: EUR

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

   euro size

   euro style pad

• The plural form euro was previously recommended for use in official European documents written in English, 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
• “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.

• ouer, roué, ureo-

• yuru

euro

1. wallaroo, euro

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

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euro m (plural euros)

1. euro (currency)

• “euro”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “euro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “euro” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Borrowed from English euro.

euro m (plural euroyow)

1. euro (currency)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛu̯ro]

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euro n

1. euro (currency)

   Synonyms: éčko, euráč

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

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.

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

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

euro (genitive euro, partitive eurot)

1. euro (currency)

   Synonym: (colloquial) eur

Declension of euro (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		euro	eurod
accusative	nom.
	gen.	euro
genitive			eurode
partitive		eurot	eurosid
illative		eurosse	eurodesse
inessive		euros	eurodes
elative		eurost	eurodest
allative		eurole	eurodele
adessive		eurol	eurodel
ablative		eurolt	eurodelt
translative		euroks	eurodeks
terminative		euroni	eurodeni
essive		eurona	eurodena
abessive		eurota	eurodeta
comitative		euroga	eurodega

• euro-

• 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

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

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

euro

1. euro (currency)

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

• Terms prefixed with euro-.

• “euro”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /ø.ʁo/

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euro m (plural euros)

1. euro (currency)

   Synonym: balle

   • 2020 June 19, “Stopper la haine sur Internet”, in Le Monde‎^[2]:

     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)

Even inflection in -o[1]
	singular	plural
Nominative	euro	euroh
Accusative	euro	euroid
Genitive	euro	euroi
Illative	euron	euroid
Locative	eurost	euroin
Comitative	euroin	euroiguin
Abessive	eurottáá	euroittáá
Essive	euron	—
Partitive	eurod	—

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.u.ro/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛuro
• Hyphenation: è‧u‧ro

Borrowed from English euro, from eurocurrency.^[2]

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

1. euro (currency)

• Some people who used the old Italian lira may still have a tendency to use the feminine plural as in "gli dovevo quelle 200 euro" ("I owed those 200 euros to him").

Borrowed from Latin eurus, from Ancient Greek εὖρος (eûros).^[3]

euro m (plural euri)

1. synonym of scirocco: Eurus (southwest wind)
   • 1321 [1308-1320], Alighieri Dante, Divina Commedia [Divine Comedy], volume Paradiso (narrative poem), 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], Giosuè Carducci, Juvenilia, volume II (poem), XXV. A O. T. T., page 38, lines 29–30:

     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 Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛu̯.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛːu̯.ro]

eurō

1. dative/ablative singular of eurus
2. Euro (monetary unit)

Third-declension noun.

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
• Homophone: euro-

euro n (indeclinable)

1. euro (currency unit of the European Monetary Union; symbol: €)

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

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

Borrowed from French euro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeu̯.ro/

euro m (plural euro)

1. euro (currency)

• èvro (Serbia)

• IPA^(key): /euro/

èuro m inan (Cyrillic spelling ѐуро)

1. euro (currency)

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euro

1. euro

Inflection
Nominative	euro
Genitive	euro
	singular	plural
Nominative	euro	euro
Accusative	euro	euroid
Genitive	euro	euroi
Illative	euro eurooʹje	euroid
Locative	eurost	euroin
Comitative	euroin	euroivuiʹm
Abessive	eurotaa eurotää	euroitaa euroitää
Essive	euron
Partitive	eurod

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛu̯rɔ/

euro n

1. euro

• “euro”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• 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