euro

See also: Euro, euró, eŭro, euro-, and Euro-

Contents

English

Euro banknotes and coins.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (UK)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈjʊɹoʊ/, /ˈjɝoʊ/

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 Bosphorus.

Alternative forms

• Euro (proscribed)

Noun

euro (plural euros or euro)

1. The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: €
2. A coin with a face value of 1 euro.
3. An abbreviation for European in any sense; e.g. "euro size"; "euro style pad".

Usage notes

• The plural recommended for use in official European documents written in English has been euro for some time, but this recommendation has been amended to euros. However, in Irish English the plural euro is now well-established.

Derived terms

• euro area
• euro coin
• eurozone

Translations

currency unit of the European Monetary Union

• Afrikaans: euro
• Albanian: euro
• Arabic: يُورُو‎ (ar) m (yūrū)
• Aragonese: euro m
• Armenian: եվրո (hy) (evro)
• Asturian: euru m
• Basque: euro (eu)
• Belarusian: е́ўра n (jéŭra)
• Bulgarian: е́вро (bg) n (évro)
• Burmese: ယူရိုငွေ (yurui-ngwe)
• Catalan: euro (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 歐元 (zh), 欧元 (zh) (Ōuyuán)

• Cornish: ewro m
• Czech: euro (cs) n
• Danish: euro c
• Dutch: euro (nl)
• Esperanto: eŭro (eo)
• Estonian: euro (et), eur (slang), eurts (slang)
• Faroese: evra f
• Finnish: euro (fi)
• French: euro (fr) m
• Galician: euro (gl) m
• Georgian: ევრო (evro)
• German: Euro (de) m
• Greek: ευρώ (el) n (evró)
• Hebrew: אֵירוֹ‎
• Hindi: यूरो (yūrō)
• Hungarian: euró (hu)
• Icelandic: evra (is) f
• Ido: euro (io)
• Indonesian: euro
• Interlingua: euro
• Irish: eoró f, (more commonly) euro f, euronna f pl
• Italian: euro (it) m
• Japanese: ユーロ (ja) (yūro)
• Kazakh: еуро (ewro)
• Khmer: អឺរ៉ូ (əɨroo)
• Korean: 유로 (ko) (yuro)
• Kyrgyz: эвро (evro)

• Latvian: eiro
• Ligurian: éoro m
• Lithuanian: euras (lt) m
• Macedonian: евро n (evro)
• Malay: euro
• Maltese: ewro
• Manx: oaro f
• Maori: uro
• Mirandese: ouro m
• Norman: ûro m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: euro (no) m

  Nynorsk: euro m

• Occitan: èuro m
• Persian: یورو‎ (fa) (yuro)
• Polish: euro (pl) n
• Portuguese: euro (pt)
• Romanian: euro m
• Russian: е́вро (ru) n (jévro)
• Sami:

  Inari: evro

  Northern: euro

  Skolt: euʹrr

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ѐуро m (Bosnian, Croatian), ѐвро m (Serbian)

  Roman: èuro (sh) m (Bosnian, Croatian), èvro m (Serbian)

• Slovak: euro (sk) n
• Slovene: evro m
• Spanish: euro (es)
• Swedish: euro (sv)
• Tagalog: euro
• Tajik: евро (evro)
• Thai: ยูโร (yuu-roo)
• Turkish: avro (tr)
• Ukrainian: є́вро (jévro)
• Urdu: یورو‎ (yūro)
• Uzbek: yevro (uz)
• Vietnamese: euro (vi)
• Welsh: ewro (cy) m

coin worth 1 euro

• Basque: euro (eu)
• Faroese: evra f
• Galician: euro (gl) m
• Greek: ευρώ (el) n (evró)

• Irish: euro f
• Marathi: यूरो m (yūrō)
• Romanian: euro m
• Spanish: euro (es) m

Etymology 2

From Adnyamathanha yuru, thuru.

Noun

euro (plural euros)

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

Translations

Macropus robustus

• Finnish: vuorikenguru

• Warlpiri: kanyarla, kanyala

See also

• joey
• kangaroo
• macropod
• marsupial
• wallaby

References

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

Anagrams

• ouer, roué, ureo-

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Adnyamathanha

Alternative forms

• yuru

Noun

euro

1. wallaroo, euro

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Catalan

Noun

euro m (plural euros)

1. euro (currency)

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛu̯ro]

Noun

euro n

1. euro (currency)

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	euro	eura
genitive	eura	eur
dative	euru	eurům
accusative	euro	eura
vocative	euro	eura
locative	euru	eurech
instrumental	eurem	eury

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /œvro/, [ˈœwʁo], /ɛvro/, [ˈɛwʁo]

Noun

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

1. euro (currency)

Usage notes

Amounts are given with the plural indefinite euro.

Inflection

Declension of euro

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	euro	euroen	euroer euro	euroerne euroene
genitive	euros	euroens	euroers euros	euroernes euroenes

Further reading

• euro on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈøːroː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: eu‧ro

Noun

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

1. euro (currency)

   Die broek kost tachtig euro. — These pants cost eighty euros.

   Die broek kost tachtig euri.

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?

   Heb jij twee euri voor de automaat?

Usage notes

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

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Estonian

Etymology

Noun

euro (genitive euro, partitive eurot)

1. euro (currency)

Declension

Inflection of euro (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	euro	eurod
accusative	euro	eurod
genitive	euro	eurode
partitive	eurot	eurosid
illative	euro 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

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Finnish

Etymology

A cross-European neologism. See euro for more.

Noun

euro

1. euro (currency)

Usage notes

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

Declension

Inflection of euro (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		euro	eurot
genitive		euron	eurojen
partitive		euroa	euroja
illative		euroon	euroihin
		singular	plural
nominative		euro	eurot
accusative	nom.	euro	eurot
	gen.	euron
genitive		euron	eurojen
partitive		euroa	euroja
inessive		eurossa	euroissa
elative		eurosta	euroista
illative		euroon	euroihin
adessive		eurolla	euroilla
ablative		eurolta	euroilta
allative		eurolle	euroille
essive		eurona	euroina
translative		euroksi	euroiksi
instructive		—	euroin
abessive		eurotta	euroitta
comitative		—	euroineen

Compounds

• euroalue
• eurokolikko
• eurokriisi
• euroseteli
• eurovastaisuus

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /œ.ʁo/

• audio

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• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

euro m (plural euros)

1. euro (currency)

Anagrams

• roue, roué

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Galician

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

euro m (plural euros)

1. euro (currency)

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Ido

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

Usage notes

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 plura form euri).

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Inari Sami

Etymology

Noun

euro

1. euro (currency)

Inflection

Even inflection in -o
	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	—

References

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛu.ro/
• Stress: èuro
• Hyphenation: eu‧ro

Etymology 1

From English euro, from eurocurrency.

Noun

euro m (plural euro)

1. euro (currency)

Etymology 2

From Latin eurus, from Ancient Greek εὖρος (eûros).

Noun

euro m (plural euri)

1. A southwest wind; Eurus.
   • 1321 [1308-1320], Dante, Alighieri, Divina Commedia [Divine Comedy], volume Paradiso (narrative poem, in Italian; quote 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; quote 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

References

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Latin

Noun

eurō

1. dative singular of eurus
2. ablative singular of eurus

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

1. euro (monetary unit)

Derived terms

• euromynt
• euroområde
• eurosone

References

• “euro” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

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

1. euro (monetary unit)

Derived terms

• euromynt
• euroområde
• eurosone

References

• “euro” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.wrɔ/

• Audio

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Noun

euro n (indeclinable)

1. euro (currency)

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Portuguese

Etymology

Derived from Latin Europa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈew.ɾɔ/, /ˈew.ɾu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈew.ɾu/
• Hyphenation: eu‧ro

Noun

euro m (plural euros)

1. euro (currency unit of the European Union)

See also

• cêntimo

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• èvro (Serbia)

Noun

èuro m (Cyrillic spelling ѐуро)

1. euro (currency)

Declension

Declension of euro

	singular	plural
nominative	euro	euri
genitive	eura	eura
dative	euru	eurima
accusative	euro	eure
vocative	euro	euri
locative	euru	eurima
instrumental	eurom	eurima

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Skolt Sami

Etymology

Noun

euro

1. euro

Inflection

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

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛu̯rɔ/

Noun

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

1. euro

Declension

Declension of euro

	singular	plural
nominative	euro	eurá
genitive	eura	eur
dative	euru	eurám
accusative	euro	eurá
locative	eure	eurách
instrumental	eurom	eurami

Further reading

• euro in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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Spanish

Noun

euro m (plural euros)

1. euro (currency)

Derived terms

• eurillo (diminutive)
• eurito (diminutive)

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

euro c

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

Declension

Declension of euro
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	euro	euron	euro	eurona
Genitive	euros	eurons	euros	euronas

References

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

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Welsh

Verb

euro

1. To bestow gold