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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)

1. (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 [...].

2. (historical) A form of currency formerly used in the French-speaking parts of Canada.
3. (historical) A form of currency formerly used in French Indochina.
4. 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)

1. (historical) piastre (one of several historical units of currency)
2. (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

1. plural of piastra

Anagrams

• apriste, arpiste, espatri, estirpa, paresti, pratesi, prestai, rapiste, saperti, sparite, sperati, spirate, spretai, sterpai, stipare, stiperà