öre
SayUR-uhUS/ˈɝə/UK/ˈɜːɹə/
Pluralöres, öre
- 1A Swedish unit of currency, one hundredth of a krona.
The accountant insisted that the books balance to the last öre.
The bill at the café in Stockholm came to 49 kronor and 50 öre.
Note
A small coin with a golden pedigree: the name came into English from Swedish, which took it from Latin aureus, the gold coin of Rome. The same Latin word lies behind the Danish and Norwegian øre. In English the plural can stay unchanged, as in 50 öre, or take an -s, as in öres.
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Origin
Borrowed from Swedish öre, from Latin aureus (“a Roman coin; golden”). It is a doublet of aureus, eyrir, øre and oyra.