# öre

Pronunciation: say "UR-uh" US /ˈɝə/, UK /ˈɜːɹə/

## Noun

1. A Swedish unit of currency, one hundredth of a krona.
   - Simple: A small unit of Swedish money. One hundred öre make one 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._

## Origin

Borrowed from Swedish öre, from Latin aureus (“a Roman coin; golden”). It is a doublet of aureus, eyrir, øre and oyra.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/%C3%B6re (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).