Coin vs Soldo - What's the difference?
coin | soldo |
(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
* 1883: (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
A token used in a special establishment like a casino (also called a chip).
(figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.
* Hammond
One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge.
To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture.
To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate.
* Dryden
To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
* John Locke
(historical) An Italian coin, formerly one-twentieth of a lira.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 647:
As nouns the difference between coin and soldo
is that coin is (money) a piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle while soldo is (historical) an italian coin, formerly one-twentieth of a lira.As a verb coin
is to make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture.coin
English
Noun
(en noun)- ...the coins were of all countries and sizes - doubloons, and louis d'ors, and guineas, and pieces of eight...
- The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin .
Derived terms
* coinageVerb
(en verb)- to coin''' silver dollars; to '''coin a medal
- Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined .
- Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined , / To soothe his sister and delude her mind.
- Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day.
Anagrams
* * * 1000 English basic words ----soldo
English
(wikipedia soldo)Noun
(soldi)- That's twelve soldi . I'd be lucky to get as much as a franc for one painting.