different between kreuzer vs thaler

English

Etymology

From German Kreuzer, from Kreuz (“cross”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k???ts?/

Noun

kreuzer (plural kreuzers)

1. (historical) A small coin of varying value formerly used in parts of Germany and Austria.
   • 1960, AM Holt, translating Gottfried Keller, Green Henry, Calder Publications 2010, p. 647:

     ‘She bought them in the market for a kreuzer!’

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??l??/
• Rhymes: -??l?(?)

Alternative forms

• taler

Etymology

From German Thaler, an abbreviation of Joachimsthaler, after Sankt Joachimsthal, the German city in which some of the earliest thalers were minted in 1518. Doublet of tolar.

Noun

thaler (plural thalers)

1. (historical) A monetary unit used in a number of central and northern European countries, known locally as daalder (Netherlands), daler (Scandinavia), Taler, Thaler (Germany), etc.
2. (historical) The currency of Baden from 1829 to 1837, valued at 100 Kreuzer.

Descendants

• dollar

Translations

Anagrams

• Hartel, Hartle, Thrale, halter, lather, rathel

French

Noun

thaler m (plural thalers)

1. Alternative spelling of taler

Further reading

• “thaler” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /??al?r/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /??a?l?r/, /??al?r/

Verb

thaler

1. Aspirate mutation of taler.

Mutation