Consideraţii privind onomastica numismatică: nume de monede naţionale
Considerations Regarding Numismatic Onomastics: Names of National Currencies

Summary/Abstract: This study aims at presenting names of currencies in Romania and abroad (in European and cross-European space) on different levels of linguistic analysis, paying attention to the diachronic dimension and the synchronic one: the establishment of a currency as a unit of economic exchange (substituting various forms of barter) implicitly leads to the onomastic differentiation of monetary items and their subdivisions. The “motivation” underlying the choice of a name of currency can be historically determined (administrative formations, “illustrious” names of leaders or national symbols – ducat, louis (d’or), napoleon, bolivar and others). At the same time, by means of metonymy, currency names can refer, in the national language of coinage, to the name of the metal from which they are made (gulden, rupee and others). In some situations, the name of a currency results from the detoponymisation of the region in which it is used: euro, florin (see also forint).

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