Other forms: euros
The euro is the shared money of France, Germany and their neighbours. Pay in euros, the euro fell, a euro coin.
Twenty countries use it, which is fewer than the European Union has members, since some kept their own. The notes are the same everywhere but each country designs one side of its coins, so change from Ireland spends perfectly well in Spain.
1nouneuroThe shared currency of much of Europe.
“A coffee in the station café costs three euros.”
euro is a currency.
The name was chosen by public competition in the 1990s, shortened simply from Europe.
Ancient Greek
Εὐρώπη
Latin
Europa
English, today
euro
From Europe. 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, the name in Greek mythology of a princess, abducted by
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