stotin

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Slovene stotin.

Noun

stotin (plural stotins or stotina or stotini or stotinov)

  1. A former currency unit of Slovenia, one hundredth of a tolar.
    • 1991, FBIS Daily Report: East Europe, numbers 192-201, page 37:
      The brokers of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange today for the first time dealt in certificates on dinar funds deposited in the special accounts of the Service of the Social Accounting. The stock exchange brokers who dealt with these certificates demanded 800-900 stotins for a dinar. However, the buyers were willing to pay 750-850 stotins for a dinar.
    • 2005, Robin McKelvie, Jenny McKelvie, Slovenia: The Bradt Travel Guide, Bradt Travel Guides, page 27:
      The tolar is a decimal currency and there are 100 stotins in a tolar, although stotins are no longer produced.

Usage notes

The tolar, and therefore the stotin, was official currency in Slovenia from 8 October 1991 (soon after independence from Yugoslavia) until the introduction of the euro on 1 January 2007.

Anagrams

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stɔtíːn/
  • Rhymes: -íːn
  • Hyphenation: sto‧tin

Etymology 1

From stotína.

Noun

stotȋn m inan

  1. (historical) stotin (the value of one hundredth of a tolar)
Declension
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First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate) , fixed accent
nom. sing. stotȋn
gen. sing. stotȋna
singular dual plural
nominative
imenovȃlnik
stotȋn stotȋna stotȋni
genitive
rodȋlnik
stotȋna stotȋnov stotȋnov
dative
dajȃlnik
stotȋnu, stotȋni stotȋnoma, stotȋnama stotȋnom, stotȋnam
accusative
tožȋlnik
stotȋn stotȋna stotȋne
locative
mẹ̑stnik
stotȋnu, stotȋni stotȋnih, stotȋnah stotȋnih, stotȋnah
instrumental
orọ̑dnik
stotȋnom stotȋnoma, stotȋnama stotȋni
(vocative)
(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik)
stotȋn stotȋna stotȋni


Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

stotȋn

  1. genitive dual/plural of stotína

Further reading

  • stotin”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
  • stotin”, in Termania, Amebis
  • See also the general references