euro

Meanings

1. The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: €
2. A coin with a face value of one euro.
3. Abbreviation of European, in any sense.

1. Any of species Macropus robustus of macropods; a wallaroo.

1. Clipping of European.

1. Alternative spelling of euro, the currency and coin introduced 1999.
2. The UEFA European Football Championship, a European football competition held between the international teams of Europe every four years.
3. Clipping of European.

1. A ghost town in Western Australia.

Etymology

The name euro was the winner of a contest open to the general public to propose names for the new European currency, and as such is technically a neologism, although it obviously alludes to the common root of geographical names for the continent Europe, derived from Latin Europa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē), the name in Greek mythology of a princess, abducted by Zeus as a bull across the Bosporus. According to the official story, the term was coined by Belgian teacher and esperantist Germain Pirlot in 1995, who suggested it in a letter to Jacques Santer, then President of the European Commission.