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Glite Dictionary
tetri

tetri

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A small money unit in Georgia equal to one hundredth of a lari
  • noun
: tetri
  • Prices are listed in lari and tetri throughout Georgia.

Examples

  • The cashier gave me ten tetri as change.

  • I found a coin worth one tetri on the street.

  • A one tetri coin is very small in value.

  • The price of the candy is only 50 tetri.

  • The price of the book is ten tetri.

  • He found a coin worth five tetri on the street.

  • You need a hundred tetri to buy this candy.

Surface Forms

tetri singular
tetri plural

Etymology

Tetri comes from an old Georgian word tetri meaning 'white', because coins were often made of silver and looked white. Today a tetri is the small money unit in Georgia, equal to one hundredth of a lari.