英语词汇currency的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

currency; coins named after people. Currency, a synonym for paper money, applied to coins when the term was first used in late 17th-century England, there being no paper money at the time. It was so named because it was the current medium of exchange. The first European to sight the Pacific Ocean, Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475–1519), has the balboa, Panama’s main monetary unit, named after him. Similarly, the cordoba, Nicaragua’s principal monetary unit, honors Francisco de Córdoba (1475–1526), who explored Nicaragua for Spain. The most renowned explorer of all, Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), who is called Cristóbal Colón in Spanish, has the colón, the basic monetary unit of Costa Rica and El Savador, named in his honor. Two other heroes who have money named after them are the Honduran Indian chief Lempira, who valiantly resisted the Spanish conquest and is honored by Honduras’s principal monetary unit, the lempiro, and Simon Bolívar, the Liberator, for whom both the country of Bolivia and its main monetary unit, the bolivar, were named. Up until the 1978 Iranian revolution, a gold coin called the pahlavi honored Reza Shah Pahlavi (1877–1944), longtime ruler of Iran. Similarly, the albertin of the Austrian Netherlands honored Archduke Albert, and the alfonso of Spain, Spanish king Alfonso.

词汇	currency
词源	currency; coins named after people. Currency, a synonym for paper money, applied to coins when the term was first used in late 17th-century England, there being no paper money at the time. It was so named because it was the current medium of exchange. The first European to sight the Pacific Ocean, Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475–1519), has the balboa, Panama’s main monetary unit, named after him. Similarly, the cordoba, Nicaragua’s principal monetary unit, honors Francisco de Córdoba (1475–1526), who explored Nicaragua for Spain. The most renowned explorer of all, Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), who is called Cristóbal Colón in Spanish, has the colón, the basic monetary unit of Costa Rica and El Savador, named in his honor. Two other heroes who have money named after them are the Honduran Indian chief Lempira, who valiantly resisted the Spanish conquest and is honored by Honduras’s principal monetary unit, the lempiro, and Simon Bolívar, the Liberator, for whom both the country of Bolivia and its main monetary unit, the bolivar, were named. Up until the 1978 Iranian revolution, a gold coin called the pahlavi honored Reza Shah Pahlavi (1877–1944), longtime ruler of Iran. Similarly, the albertin of the Austrian Netherlands honored Archduke Albert, and the alfonso of Spain, Spanish king Alfonso.
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