piastren.

Brit.

/pɪˈastə/, U.S.

/piˈæstər/

Forms: 1500s piastre (plural), 1600s piastra, 1600s piastri (plural), 1600s piastro, 1600s pyaster, 1600s– piaster, 1600s– piastre.

Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian piastra.

Etymology: < Italian piastra a Spanish or Italian coin (1561), a Turkish, Ottoman or Egyptian coin (second half of the 16th cent., translating Turkish kuruş : see kurus n.), specific sense of piastra plate of wood, metal, glass or other material (end of the 13th cent.; compare post-classical Latin piastra leaf or plate of metal (early 14th cent. in Italian sources); first half of the 14th cent. in piastre d'argento (plural) small pieces of metal), further etymology uncertain: either shortened < classical Latin emplastra , plural of emplastrum emplaster n. (perhaps influenced by lastra plate (1282), of uncertain origin), or back-formation < Italian impiastrare to cover with plaster (14th cent.) < classical Latin emplastrāre emplaster v. In sense 3 after French piastre (1735 or earlier denoting a Chinese coin which was also used in Indo-China; 1595 in sense 2; 1703 or earlier in sense 1; < Italian). Compare Portuguese piastra (1838 denoting an Egyptian coin; earlier as †piastre (1606)). Spanish piastra is not attested until much later (1843), and (except in a small number of late 20th-cent. examples) always denotes an eastern coin, not a Spanish coin.The forms piastro and (plural) piastri apparently reflect a misunderstanding of the gender of the Italian word, which is always feminine.

1. A Spanish or Spanish-American peso or dollar, originally equal to eight reals; a monetary unit of similar value in other countries. Now historical.

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Spanish coins > silver > Spanish dollar

royal of plate1559

piastre1592

rial of eight1598

piece of eight1606

royal of eight1606

real of eight1612

rial1640

plate-piece of eight1680

cob1681

cross-dollar1689

duro1777

1592 H. Wotton Let. 31 July in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1685) 680 That no Burgess or inhabitant Forrester, suffer any bruttura before his Door, under penalty of 5 Piastre.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 291 At Venice..the Spanish piastro of siluer is giuen for sixe lires.

1674 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 4) Piaster, a Coyn in Italy, about the value of our Crown.

1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 119 At Lisbon..the king..immediately ordered her 20,000 piastres.

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 650 The happiness of a people is not to be estimated by the piastres of their traders.

1808 Times 1 Nov. 2/2 The Grandees, Clergy, Merchants, Capitalists, &c. of that city [sc. Valencia] have paid 100,000 hard piastres into the military chest.

1882 R. Bithell Counting-house Dict. (1893) 227 The Spanish Piastre is synonymous with the dollar or duro, sterling value 49·478d.

1922 J. McCabe tr. P. Denis Argentine Republic iii. 93 Freightage on the railways is dear. It is thirty-five piastres a ton for wine between Mendoza and Buenos Aires.

1975 J. L. Anderson Night of Silent Drums ii. iii. 109 The sailors had brought coins, Danish, Dutch, French, and German; pieces of eight, shilling-pieces, piastres, centimes, centavos.

1987 D. Hilt Troubled Trinity xvii. 268 Bassano, a modest estate near Sutri to the north of Rome, which he had bought for 70,000 piastres.

2. Originally: a small coin and monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire, equal to one hundredth of a lira or pound. In later use: any of various similar coins and monetary units in use in countries lying within the area of the former Ottoman Empire, including Turkey (cf. kurus n.) and Egypt, and other countries subject to influence from these states.

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Turkish coins

zecchino1572

serapha1576

manghir1585

chequina1587

asper1587

sultane1612

sultanina1613

sultanya1613

sherifi1615

piastre1617

sequin1617

sultana1656

sultaness1661

para1687

medjidie1855

kurus1882

metalik1895

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Piastre, a Turkish Coyne worth about iiijs. sterl.]

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 276 In Turkey..The coynes..most esteemed..are the siluer ryals of Spaine (which the Italians call Pezzi d'otto, and Pezzi di quattro, pieces of eight, and pieces of foure, and the Turks call piastri, and halfe piastri).

1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor v. 16 A piaster is about half a crown English.

1799 in Naval Documents U.S. Wars with Barbary Powers (1939) I. 333 Piastres [in Tripoli] are small bits of Copper of diff^t. shapes with a small stamp on each.

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II cxxv. 181 The sole of many masters Of an ill-gotten million of piastres.

1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile ix. 241 Two silver piastres, or about fivepence English.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 8 Mar. 7/2 At Assouan..they get between three and four piastres a day, amounting to about a penny an hour, or five shillings a week.

1907 Macmillan's Mag. Sept. 839 In Belgrade..they gauged my ignorance of the number of nickel paras and piastres that go to the dinar, or franc.

1975 Whitaker's Almanack 983 Egyptian Pound of 100 Piastres or 1,000 Millièmes.

1992 Coin Monthly Feb. 28/2 The girsch or piastre was a unit once used by the Ottomans and adopted by several Middle Eastern countries, although largely archaic, the reference is still used by the man in the street.

2001 J. Hamilton-Paterson Loving Monsters (2002) v. 63 He pays the driver with a careful disbursement of piastres and milliemes and signals imperiously to a listless boab to come and [etc.].

3. A note and monetary unit formerly used in French Indo-China (the area now occupied by Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia). Now historical.

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society > trade and finance > money > standards and values of currencies > [noun] > specific monetary units or units of account > specific Oceanic

piastre1844

rupiah1914

pataca1928

kip1955

riel1956

kina1974

toea1974

1844 Living Age 15 June 285/2 The captain of the Heroine states the sugar of Cochin to sell there [sc. Japan] at from 3½ to 4 piastres the picul.

1864 Times 13 Jan. 10/1 The Governor has decided that every Chinese coming into the French colony [of Cochin China] must pay a tax of two piastres a year for permission to reside.

1908 Whitaker's Almanack 618/1 The financial and political unity of Indo-China was finally established in 1898... The revenue, about 51,850,000 piastres, is derived mainly from customs, excise, and other indirect taxes.

1970 Daily Tel. 22 July 14 In Saigon, prices are sky high. The piastre, officially worth 118 to the dollar, is traded by black marketeers at nearly 400 to the dollar.

1997 1998 Standard Catal. World Coins 1733/3 ¹/600 piastre... Date 1905.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	piastre
释义	piastren. Brit. /pɪˈastə/, U.S. /piˈæstər/ Forms: 1500s piastre (plural), 1600s piastra, 1600s piastri (plural), 1600s piastro, 1600s pyaster, 1600s– piaster, 1600s– piastre. Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian piastra. Etymology: < Italian piastra a Spanish or Italian coin (1561), a Turkish, Ottoman or Egyptian coin (second half of the 16th cent., translating Turkish kuruş : see kurus n.), specific sense of piastra plate of wood, metal, glass or other material (end of the 13th cent.; compare post-classical Latin piastra leaf or plate of metal (early 14th cent. in Italian sources); first half of the 14th cent. in piastre d'argento (plural) small pieces of metal), further etymology uncertain: either shortened < classical Latin emplastra , plural of emplastrum emplaster n. (perhaps influenced by lastra plate (1282), of uncertain origin), or back-formation < Italian impiastrare to cover with plaster (14th cent.) < classical Latin emplastrāre emplaster v. In sense 3 after French piastre (1735 or earlier denoting a Chinese coin which was also used in Indo-China; 1595 in sense 2; 1703 or earlier in sense 1; < Italian). Compare Portuguese piastra (1838 denoting an Egyptian coin; earlier as †piastre (1606)). Spanish piastra is not attested until much later (1843), and (except in a small number of late 20th-cent. examples) always denotes an eastern coin, not a Spanish coin.The forms piastro and (plural) piastri apparently reflect a misunderstanding of the gender of the Italian word, which is always feminine. 1. A Spanish or Spanish-American peso or dollar, originally equal to eight reals; a monetary unit of similar value in other countries. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Spanish coins > silver > Spanish dollar royal of plate1559 piastre1592 rial of eight1598 piece of eight1606 royal of eight1606 real of eight1612 rial1640 plate-piece of eight1680 cob1681 cross-dollar1689 duro1777 1592 H. Wotton Let. 31 July in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1685) 680 That no Burgess or inhabitant Forrester, suffer any bruttura before his Door, under penalty of 5 Piastre. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 291 At Venice..the Spanish piastro of siluer is giuen for sixe lires. 1674 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 4) Piaster, a Coyn in Italy, about the value of our Crown. 1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 119 At Lisbon..the king..immediately ordered her 20,000 piastres. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 650 The happiness of a people is not to be estimated by the piastres of their traders. 1808 Times 1 Nov. 2/2 The Grandees, Clergy, Merchants, Capitalists, &c. of that city [sc. Valencia] have paid 100,000 hard piastres into the military chest. 1882 R. Bithell Counting-house Dict. (1893) 227 The Spanish Piastre is synonymous with the dollar or duro, sterling value 49·478d. 1922 J. McCabe tr. P. Denis Argentine Republic iii. 93 Freightage on the railways is dear. It is thirty-five piastres a ton for wine between Mendoza and Buenos Aires. 1975 J. L. Anderson Night of Silent Drums ii. iii. 109 The sailors had brought coins, Danish, Dutch, French, and German; pieces of eight, shilling-pieces, piastres, centimes, centavos. 1987 D. Hilt Troubled Trinity xvii. 268 Bassano, a modest estate near Sutri to the north of Rome, which he had bought for 70,000 piastres. 2. Originally: a small coin and monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire, equal to one hundredth of a lira or pound. In later use: any of various similar coins and monetary units in use in countries lying within the area of the former Ottoman Empire, including Turkey (cf. kurus n.) and Egypt, and other countries subject to influence from these states. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Turkish coins zecchino1572 serapha1576 manghir1585 chequina1587 asper1587 sultane1612 sultanina1613 sultanya1613 sherifi1615 piastre1617 sequin1617 sultana1656 sultaness1661 para1687 medjidie1855 kurus1882 metalik1895 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Piastre, a Turkish Coyne worth about iiijs. sterl.] 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 276 In Turkey..The coynes..most esteemed..are the siluer ryals of Spaine (which the Italians call Pezzi d'otto, and Pezzi di quattro, pieces of eight, and pieces of foure, and the Turks call piastri, and halfe piastri). 1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor v. 16 A piaster is about half a crown English. 1799 in Naval Documents U.S. Wars with Barbary Powers (1939) I. 333 Piastres [in Tripoli] are small bits of Copper of diff^t. shapes with a small stamp on each. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II cxxv. 181 The sole of many masters Of an ill-gotten million of piastres. 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile ix. 241 Two silver piastres, or about fivepence English. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 8 Mar. 7/2 At Assouan..they get between three and four piastres a day, amounting to about a penny an hour, or five shillings a week. 1907 Macmillan's Mag. Sept. 839 In Belgrade..they gauged my ignorance of the number of nickel paras and piastres that go to the dinar, or franc. 1975 Whitaker's Almanack 983 Egyptian Pound of 100 Piastres or 1,000 Millièmes. 1992 Coin Monthly Feb. 28/2 The girsch or piastre was a unit once used by the Ottomans and adopted by several Middle Eastern countries, although largely archaic, the reference is still used by the man in the street. 2001 J. Hamilton-Paterson Loving Monsters (2002) v. 63 He pays the driver with a careful disbursement of piastres and milliemes and signals imperiously to a listless boab to come and [etc.]. 3. A note and monetary unit formerly used in French Indo-China (the area now occupied by Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia). Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > standards and values of currencies > [noun] > specific monetary units or units of account > specific Oceanic piastre1844 rupiah1914 pataca1928 kip1955 riel1956 kina1974 toea1974 1844 Living Age 15 June 285/2 The captain of the Heroine states the sugar of Cochin to sell there [sc. Japan] at from 3½ to 4 piastres the picul. 1864 Times 13 Jan. 10/1 The Governor has decided that every Chinese coming into the French colony [of Cochin China] must pay a tax of two piastres a year for permission to reside. 1908 Whitaker's Almanack 618/1 The financial and political unity of Indo-China was finally established in 1898... The revenue, about 51,850,000 piastres, is derived mainly from customs, excise, and other indirect taxes. 1970 Daily Tel. 22 July 14 In Saigon, prices are sky high. The piastre, officially worth 118 to the dollar, is traded by black marketeers at nearly 400 to the dollar. 1997 1998 Standard Catal. World Coins 1733/3 ¹/600 piastre... Date 1905. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1592
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