A giro is a payment transferred between accounts through the post office. A giro payment, cash the giro, giro cheque.
In Britain it became the everyday word for a benefit payment, since giro cheques were how they arrived before bank transfers. The word is Italian for a circulation, from the Greek for a circle.
1noungiroA payment transferred between accounts through the post office.
“Every fortnight, he cashed his giro at the post office.”
giro is a payment.
Italian giro means a circulation, from Latin gyrus, a circle, from Greek gyros.
Proto-Indo-European
*gew- — to curve, to bend
Ancient Greek
γῦρος — circle
Latin
gyrus — circle
Italian
giro — circulation
English, today
giro
Via German -, from Italian giro (“circulation”), from Latin gyrus (“circle”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (“circle”), from Proto-Indo-European gew- (“to curve, to bend”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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