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piastre
English
Alternative forms
- piaster (US)
- pyaster [17th c.]
Etymology
From French piastre, from Italian piastra (“plate of wood or metal; coin”), probably from Latin emplastra.
Noun
piastre (plural piastres)
- (now historical) A Spanish or Spanish-American coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real.
- 1630, John Smith, True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p. 39:
- The Silkes, Velvets, Cloth of gold, and Tissue, Pyasters, Chicqueenes and Sultanies, which is gold and silver, they unloaded in foure and twentie houres, was wonderfull [...].
- 1630, John Smith, True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p. 39:
- (historical) A form of currency formerly used in the French-speaking parts of Canada.
- (historical) A form of currency formerly used in French Indochina.
- A form of currency originally used in the Ottoman Empire, and now used as a subunit in the Middle Eastern countries of Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, Syria, Jordan, Libya, South Sudan, Turkey, and Cyprus
Translations
Anagrams
- @ parties, Pirates, Prestia, airstep, eartips, parties, pastier, piaster, pirates, praties, rapiest, raspite, tapiser, traipse
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian piastra. Doublet of plâtre.
Alternative forms
- piasse (Quebec, Louisiana)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pjast?/
- (Quebec) IPA(key): /pjast?/, /pjast/, /pjas/
- (Louisiana) IPA(key): /pjas/
Noun
piastre f (plural piastres)
- (historical) piastre (one of several historical units of currency)
- (Quebec, Louisiana, colloquial) buck, dollar (former official Canadian French equivalent of the word dollar, as found on old currency.)
Further reading
- “piastre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
piastre f
- plural of piastra
Anagrams
- apriste, arpiste, espatri, estirpa, paresti, pratesi, prestai, rapiste, saperti, sparite, sperati, spirate, spretai, sterpai, stipare, stiperà
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plastre
English
Noun
plastre (countable and uncountable, plural plastres)
- Obsolete form of plaster.
Verb
plastre (third-person singular simple present plastres, present participle plastring, simple past and past participle plastred)
- Obsolete form of plaster.
Anagrams
- Alperts, Plaster, Platers, palster, palters, persalt, plaster, platers, psalter, replats, stapler
Danish
Noun
plastre n
- indefinite plural of plaster
Old French
Alternative forms
- plaistre
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *plastrum (attested later in Medieval Latin plastrum), from Latin emplastrum.
First attested ca. 1165.
Noun
plastre m (oblique plural plastres, nominative singular plastres, nominative plural plastre)
- plaster (sticky solution)
- plaster; bandaid
Descendants
- ? English: plaster
- French: plâtre
References
- plastre on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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