franc
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
franc /fraŋk/
▶noun the basic monetary unit of France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and several other countries, equal to 100 centimes (replaced in France, Belgium, and Luxembourg by the euro in 2002).
– origin from OFr., from L. Francorum Rex ‘king of the Franks’, the legend on gold coins struck in the 14th cent.
'franc' also found in these Oxford entries:
affranchise
- Cabernet Franc
- centime
- CFA
- double napoleon
- enfranchise
- F
- fr.
- franchise
- Frank
- frank
- frankincense
- napoleon
- rappen
