scudo
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An old Italian coin that people used before the 1800s
- noun
- Archaic
:
scudo
- In the 18th century, the price of a loaf of bread was about 1 scudo.
Examples
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At a unit selling price of 0.25 scudo, the etcher would have reaped the handsome sum of 1,000 scudi for his efforts.
Academic text (1995) -
The wealth of information permits the computation of a unit cost of 3 baiocchi (0.03 scudo) per paper print.
Academic text (1995) -
He saved enough scudi to travel across Italy in style.
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The historian displayed a collection of rare coins, including a 5 scudo piece.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Scudo for the Italian coin comes from the Latin word scutum, which means 'shield'. Because many old coins showed a shield, people began to call that money a scudo, so the name links the picture on the coin to the coin itself.
