Etymology

testone

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Today it means: An ancient subunit of a Portuguese cruzado. Full definition →

Portuguese tostão ← Italian testone
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The story

  1. Italian · derived fromtestone“big head”
  2. Portuguese · derived fromtostão
  3. English todaytestone

From Portuguese tostão, ulimately from Italian testone (“big head”).

Words from the same roots

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