euro

Meaning

Noun

• The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: €
• A coin with a face value of one euro.
• Abbreviation of European in any sense.
• Macropus robustus (species), a wallaroo (macropod species).

Origin

• 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, the name in Greek mythology of a princess, abducted by Zeus as a bull across the Bosphorus.
• From Adnyamathanha yuru, thuru.