出典:Wiktionary
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/12/21 16:49 UTC 版)
Borrowed from German Thaler, an abbreviation of Joachimsthaler, after Sankt Joachimsthal, the German city in which some of the earliest thalers were minted in 1518. Doublet of dollar and tolar.
thaler (plural thalers or thaler)
出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/06/16 19:43 UTC 版)
The Thaler (or Taler or Talir) was a silver coin used throughout Europe for almost four hundred years. Its name lives on in various currencies as the dollar or tolar. Etymologically, "Thaler" is an abbreviation of "Joachimsthaler", a coin type from the city of Joachimsthal (Jáchymov) in Bohemia, where some of the first such coins were minted in 1518. (Thal is German for "dale" or "dell"; they all mean "valley". Therefore a "thaler" is a person or a thing "from the valley". In 1902, the official spelling was changed from Thal to Tal. The English version does not reflect this change.)