英语词汇dollar的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

dollar. The word dollar can be traced to the name of a saint. The most likely candidate is St. Joachim, father of the Blessed Virgin, for whom the small mining town Sankt (“Saint”) Joachimsthal in Bohemia had been named. It happened that the town and valley, or thal, belonged to a vast estate contain- ing a rich silver mine from which one-ounce coins were minted. These silver coins, with a picture of St. Joachim on the face, were at first called Joachimsthalers (“of the valley of Joachim”). But the cumbersome name was soon shortened to thalers, pro- nounced dahlers in northern German dialect. The name even- tually got to England as daller and by the end of the 17th century dollar was the accepted term applied to any foreign coin, espe- cially Spanish pieces of eight. When the newly formed United States adopted its monetary system in 1785, it completely broke with England and “resolved that the money unit of the U.S.A. be one dollar (Spanish).” The first silver dollars were coined here in 1792, and greenback dollars as we know them were first printed during the Civil War.

词汇	dollar
词源	dollar. The word dollar can be traced to the name of a saint. The most likely candidate is St. Joachim, father of the Blessed Virgin, for whom the small mining town Sankt (“Saint”) Joachimsthal in Bohemia had been named. It happened that the town and valley, or thal, belonged to a vast estate contain- ing a rich silver mine from which one-ounce coins were minted. These silver coins, with a picture of St. Joachim on the face, were at first called Joachimsthalers (“of the valley of Joachim”). But the cumbersome name was soon shortened to thalers, pro- nounced dahlers in northern German dialect. The name even- tually got to England as daller and by the end of the 17th century dollar was the accepted term applied to any foreign coin, espe- cially Spanish pieces of eight. When the newly formed United States adopted its monetary system in 1785, it completely broke with England and “resolved that the money unit of the U.S.A. be one dollar (Spanish).” The first silver dollars were coined here in 1792, and greenback dollars as we know them were first printed during the Civil War.
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