dollar French · revision 17037

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1776, Courrier de l'Europe|origins=nds daler}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /dɔ.laʁ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dollar''' ''m'' (plural dollars)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|en|dollar]], the American English name of the monetary unit of the United States.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|18, 52b) English had earlier used “daller”, “doller” in the 16th century for the [[thaler]], from [[nds|daler]] (1553), the equivalent of [[de|Taler]], a silver coin first struck in 1519.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ In the North American colonies the English word came to name the Spanish peso (1650), and in 1785 the Continental Congress adopted the dollar as the unit of the United States.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The ''Courrier de l'Europe'' (1776) reports that a hundredweight costs only five dollars in Boston.^(TLFi) Bloch and Wartburg and the GLLF date it from 1773, the Grand Robert and the Petit Robert from 1730.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(GLLF 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ On its own the word means the United States dollar, and in France it suggests the “greenback” and American money; the ''dollar canadien'' is named in 1853, and in Quebec it is familiarly called ''piastre''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007) The power of the American currency produced ''eurodollar'' (1962, from English) and ''pétrodollar'' (1974).^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1730 – First record, according to the Grand Robert.^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 1773 – Record cited by Bloch and Wartburg.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1776 – Five dollars in Boston, ''Courrier de l'Europe''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1853 – ''Dollar canadien''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ * 1962 – ''Eurodollar''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1974 – ''Pétrodollar''.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The [[m|en|dollar]], the monetary unit of the United States: ''payer en dollars''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The monetary unit of some other countries: ''dollar canadien'', ''dollar australien''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[thaler]]

+ * [[eurodollar]]

+ * [[pétrodollar]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}