$
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Translingual
Description
An S-shape with one or two vertical lines crossing it completely.
Etymology
$ appears to have evolved ca 1775 in the United States from a common abbreviation for pesos, also known as piastres or pieces of eight, a P/raised-S ligature PS that passed through a stage resembling ֆ.[1] It was used in the US before the adoption of the dollar in 1785.[2]
Noun
$
- money
- 1954, Donald's Diary
- Uncle Ray's Loans
- We lend $$$
- 1954, Donald's Diary
- (used everywhere except in the Philippines) peso
- dollar
- 1977, advertisement page in Uncanny X-Men, #106, page 8
- Fool all your friends. You'll get a Million[sic] $$$ worth of laughs with these exact reproductions of old U. S. Gold Banknotes (1840).
- 1977, advertisement page in Uncanny X-Men, #106, page 8
- escudo
Letter
$
- A substitute for the letter S, used as a symbol of money or (perceived) greedy business practices.
- "Micro$oft Window$"
- 2015, "Pixtopia", season 1, episode 6b of Star vs. the Forces of Evil
- [the text below is written on-screen in large letters, once Marco reveals his "emergency cash stash"]
- Marco'$ emergency ca$h $ta$h
Symbol
$
- (programming) Prefix indicating a variable in some languages, like Perl, PHP, shell scripts.
Derived terms
- English: $DEITY
Usage notes
When used as a currency symbol, $ precedes the number it qualifies (in English), despite being pronounced second. For example, “$1” is read as “one dollar” not “dollar one” unlike the usage in languages such as French or German: “1 $”, “2,50 $”. When used for the Portuguese escudo, $ is placed between the escudos & centavos, 2$50.
See also
Currency signs
- ؋ – afghani
- ฿ – baht
- ₿ – bitcoin
- ¢ – cent
- ₡ – colón
- ₵ – cedi
– cifrão- Ð – dogecoin
- $ – dollar sign
- ₫ – dong
- ֏ – dram
- € – euro
- ƒ – florin/guilder/gulden
- ₲ – guarani
- ₴ – hryvnia
- ₭ – kip
- ₾ – lari
- ₺ – Turkish lira
- ₼ – manat
- ₥ – mill
- ₦ – naira
- ₱ – Philippine peso
- £ or ₤ – pound/lira
- ﷼ – rial/riyal
- ៛ – riel
- ރ – rufiyaa
- ₽ – ruble
- ₨ – rupee
- ௹ – rupee
- ₹ – Indian rupee
- ૱ – rupee (in Gujarat)
- ₪ – new shekel
- ⃀ – som
- ৲ or ৳ – taka
- ₸ – tenge
- ₮ – tugrik, tether
- ₩ – won
- ¥ – yen/yuan
Formerly used currency signs
References
- ^ A history of mathematical notations, Florian Cajori, 1993
- ^ “US Bureau of Engraving and Printing”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2009 May 22 (last accessed), archived from the original on {archivedate:automatic}