livre

Louisiana Creole: liv

→ English: livre

Inherited from Middle French livre, from Old French livre, from Latin lībra.


euro

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.

2020 June 19, “Stopper la haine sur Internet”, in Le Monde:

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.


dollar

→ Romanian: dolar (along with English dollar)


ducat

→ Turkish: düka

Inherited from Middle French, from late Old French, borrowed from Italian ducato, from Medieval Latin ducātus, from dux (“duke; leader”). Compare also duché.


franc

fr-adj

franc (feminine franque, masculine plural francs, feminine plural franques)

franque (feminine)
francs (masculine plural)
franques (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French franc, from Early Medieval Latin Francus (“a Frank”), from Frankish *Frank (“a Frank”) (see Etymology 1). Compare also Old High German Franko (“a Frank”), Old English Franca (“a Frank”). See also Feringhee.


shekel

From Hebrew שֶׁקֶל (shékel, “shekel”), from שָׁקַל (shakál, “to weigh”).


lire

Borrowed from Italian lira, compare French livre.


sou

→ English: sou

Louisiana Creole: sou

saouls (and their alternative spellings)

Inherited from Old French, inherited from Late Latin soldus, from Latin solidus. Doublet of solide. See also the form sol, which kept the historical spelling from Old French, even if it came to be pronounced like sou.

(historical, numismatics) sou (old French coin)


kopeck

Borrowed from Russian копе́йка (kopéjka).

bor+

Personne n’aurait misé un kopeck sur eux.

Nobody would have bet a wooden nickel on them.

(figuratively, chiefly in the negative) a wooden nickel or brass farthing, an iota


couronne

Inherited from Old French corone, inherited from Latin corōna, from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē).


louis

→ Catalan: lluís

→ English: louis

→ Spanish: luis

From Louis, the name of the kings of France who first issued these coins and whose images appeared on their obverses.

(historical numismatics) a louis: various gold and silver coins issued by the Kingdom, Republic, and (slang) Empire of France

(historical numismatics, slang) 20 francs


gourde

Influenced by the adjective gourd (“clumsy”).


piastre

Borrowed from Italian piastra. Doublet of plâtre.

(historical) piastre (one of several historical units of currency)

Neuf, ça vaut au moins mille piastres, je l’ai eu pour la moitié.

It's worth at least a thousand bucks new; I got it for half that.

3. La piastre ayant cours de monnaie dans les États-Unis, il est convenu que dans les comptes auxquels la présente convention donnera lieu, le rapport de ladite monnaie, avec le franc, sera invariablement fixé à cinq francs 3.333 / 10.000, ou cinq livres huit sols tournois.

1803, Traité d'achat de la Louisiane (Louisiana Purchase Treaty):

3. It is agreed that the Dollar of the United States Specified in the present Convention shall be fixed at five francs 3333/100000 or five livres eight Sous tournois.

Les qualifications d’un sénateur seront comme suit : [...] 4. Ses propriétés mobilières et immobilières devront valoir, somme toute, quatre mille piastres, en sus de toutes ses dettes et obligations.

1867, Loi constitutionnelle de 1867 (Constitution Act, 1867):

The Qualifications of a Senator shall be as follows: … 4. His Real and Personal Property shall be together worth Four thousand Dollars over and above his Debts and Liabilities.

Non, non, c’est juste une joke. Garde-lé, ton vingt piastres.

2009, Robert Maltais, Le Curé du Mile End, page 195:

No, no, I was just joking. Keep it, your twenty bucks.

(North America, now colloquial, formerly also official) Canadian or American dollar


exergue

From Latin exergum, from Ancient Greek ἐξ (ex, “from, out of”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”).

(numismatics) exergue (space beneath the main design on a coin or medal for an inscription)


drachme

→ English: drachme, drachm

→ German: Drachme

Inherited from Old French dragme, from Late Latin dragma, etymologically reconstructed to match Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ, “unit of weight; a handful”).


silique

From Latin siliqua. Compare English silique.

(numismatics) siliqua, small coin used in Roman currency


bureau de change

fr-noun

bureau de change m (plural bureaux de change)

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bureau de change, currency exchange (place where foreign currency can be exchanged)


coupure

→ Bulgarian: купю́ра (kupjúra)

→ Russian: купю́ра (kupjúra)

→ Turkish: küpür

→ Ukrainian: купю́ра (kupjúra)


franc français

franc français m (plural francs français)

/fʁɑ̃ fʁɑ̃.sɛ/


livre sterling

livre sterling f (plural livres sterling)


deutschemark

Deutsche Mark (former currency unit of Germany)


louis d'or

louis d’or (canonical masculine)
louis d’or (plural)

(historical numismatics) louis d'or (any gold coin introduced by Louis XIII)


réal

Borrowed from Spanish real. Doublet of royal.


statère

Borrowed from Late Latin stater, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek στατήρ (statḗr).


franc CFA

Short for franc de la Communauté financière africaine


guarani

Ultimately derived from Guaraní guarani.


blockchain

(computing) Synonym of chaîne de blocs (“blockchain”)


cadière

Borrowed from Old Occitan cadera, cadieira, from Latin cathedra (“chair”). Doublet of cathèdre, chaire, and chaise.

(numismatics, historical) French coinage issued in the time of Philippe de Valois, where the monarch is pictured seated


jeton non fongible

jeton non fongible m (plural jetons non fongibles)


bitcoineur

bitcoineur m (plural bitcoineurs, feminine bitcoineuse)

bitcoineurs (plural)
bitcoineuse (feminine)


chaîne de blocs

chaîne de blocs f (plural chaînes de blocs)

LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-chaîne de blocs.wav


fleur de coin

brilliant uncirculated
brilliant uncirculated

(numismatics, of a coin) brilliant uncirculated, mint (in mint condition, in an absolutely pristine state)


shékel

post-1990 spelling of shekel (unit of currency)


sapèque

From Malay sa (“one”) + paku (“thread of one hundred pichi coins”). Attested as sapocou and sapacou in the 18th century, then as sapeck in the 19th century. Cognate with Portuguese sapeca.

(numismatics, historical) cash (historical coin and monetary unit used in Indochina and China)