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sou.

sou (old French coin)

3 characters1 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/su/

  1. sou (old French coin)

    historical · masculine

  2. money; cash

    broadly · colloquial · in-plural · masculine
    Tu peux me prêter des sous ?

  3. cent (one hundredth of a dollar)

    Louisiana · Quebec · colloquial · masculine
    Ça va être six piastres et vingt-cinq sous, s'il te plaît.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old French, inherited from Late Latin soldus, from Latin solidus. Doublet of solide. See also the form sol, which kept the historical spelling from Old French, even if it came to be pronounced like sou.

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