Meaning of "rix-dollar" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RIX-DOLLAR

Partial translation of obsolete Dutch rijksdaler; rijk realm, kingdom.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF RIX-DOLLAR

rix-dollar  [ˈrɪksˌdɒlə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RIX-DOLLAR

Rix-Dollar is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RIX-DOLLAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rixdollar

Rixdollar is the English term for silver coinage used throughout the European continent. The same term was also used of currency in Cape Colony and Ceylon. However, the Rixdollar only existed as a coin in Ceylon. Unissued remainder banknotes for the Cape of Good Hope denominated in Rixdollars exist, but these are very rare.

Definition of rix-dollar in the English dictionary

The definition of rix-dollar in the dictionary is any of various former Scandinavian or Dutch small silver coins Also called: rijksdaaler, rigsdaler.

TRANSLATION OF RIX-DOLLAR

Find out the translation of rix-dollar to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of rix-dollar from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rix-dollar» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: RIX美元
• Translator English - Spanish: rix - dólar
• English: rix-dollar
• Translator English - Hindi: Rix डॉलर
• Translator English - Arabic: RIX دولار
• Translator English - Russian: RIX - доллар
• Translator English - Portuguese: rix de dólares
• Translator English - Bengali: RIX ডলারের
• Translator English - French: rixdale
• Translator English - Malay: Rix-dollar
• Translator English - German: Reichstaler
• Translator English - Japanese: RIXドル
• Translator English - Korean: RIX 달러
• Translator English - Javanese: Rix-dollar
• Translator English - Vietnamese: rix đô la
• Translator English - Tamil: RIX டாலர்
• Translator English - Marathi: रििक्स-डॉलर
• Translator English - Turkish: rix dolarlık
• Translator English - Italian: rix - dollar
• Translator English - Polish: Rix dolarów
• Translator English - Ukrainian: RIX -долар
• Translator English - Romanian: RIX - dolar
• Translator English - Greek: rix - δολαρίου
• Translator English - Afrikaans: riksdaalder
• Translator English - Swedish: riksdaler
• Translator English - Norwegian: RIX- dollar

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RIX-DOLLAR»

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A Geographical Dictionary Or Universal Gazetteer, Ancient ...

Danlsic, Denmark, England, Florence, France, Frankfort, gulden, or florii rix dollar specie ri\ dol.sundish specie rix dol. crown money rix dollar Danish cur rency rix dollar Holstein currency pound sterling lira ducat, or crow n cur rent livre ...

Joseph Emerson Worcester, 1823

The Shipmaster's Assistant, and Commercial Digest: ...

The rix dollar specie is divided into I z\ florins current = 1} rader florin = 1 1 florins specie = 2 herren florins = 3i Cologne florins = 4 orts = 8 skillings = 20 blafferts = 30 groschen = 60 stivers = 80 Cologne albuses = 90 creutzers = 100 light ...

Joseph Blunt, 1837

Ceylon Coins and Currency

692,159 ; the Royal Mint Museum possesses a rix-dollar of 1812 and a half rix- dollar of 1816. i 11. The depreciation of the new coinage failed in its purpose, and by 1811 had driven out of circulation the old rix-dollars of higher intrinsic value, ...

Hubert Walter Codrington, 1994

The Columbian Arithmetician: Or New System of Theoretical ...

Dols. Crs; Each pound sterling of Great Britain, at ------ »4 44 pound sterling of Ireland .--..--.-- 4 livre tnurnois of France --.---.--- florin or gilder of the French Netherlands mark banco of Hamburgh . - - . - rix dollar of Denmark -.---.-.---1 real of plate ...

‎1811

A cyclopedia of commerce and commercial navigation

Rix dollar of Francis II. (1800) Rix dollar of the kingdom of Hungary . . Half rix dollar, or florin, Convention Copftsuck, or 20-croutxer piece 17-creuUcr piece Halbc copf, or 10-creutzer piece Rix dollar Itix dollar of 1800 (t in proportion) Copftsuck ...

Isaac Smith Homans, 1858

Standard Catalog of World Paper Money General Issues - 1368-1960

2 2 Rix Dollar 1808. Value and 1808 date around seated Britannia. Embossed stamp. Vertical format. — — — 3 3 Rix Dollar 1808. Value and 1808 date around seated Britannia. Embossed stamp. Vertical format. — — — 4 4 Rix Dollar 1808.

George S. Cuhaj, 2012

The Columbian arithmetician: or, New system of theoretical ...

40 ir.a;k banco of Hamburgh - - 33$ rix dollar of Denmark - - 1 real of plate of Spain 10 le&lofvellon of Spain 5 milrte of Portugal - 1 24 tale of Cbina 1 43 pagoda of India 184 rupee of Bengal 50 Par bit ween the currency of Great- Britain and ...

William Brown Allen, pseud An American, 1811

Civil, commercial, political, and literary history of Spain ...

At Riga, the Rix-Dollar is 90 Gros, and divided also into 1-5 Riga Marks, and into 3 Polwa Gu-ilders ;- the Polisb Guilder must therefore consequently make 5 Riga Marks, and is also divided into 30 Polssh Gros: A Gros is 3 Whittons, or 6 black ...

Wyndham Beawes, 1793

Congressional Edition

D. — Table containing the values of moneys of account of different nations, expressed in hundredths of the United States silver dollar: with their equivalent weight of pure silver, as valued in the U. States standard coin. Aix-la-Chapelle rix -dollar ...

‎1845

Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command

I am not aware that there was any subsequent public declaration, by which the British Government officially fixed the value of the paper rix dollar ; but I conceive many of its acts to have recognised the value which the rix dollar antecedently ...

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1826

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RIX-DOLLAR»

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The nettle-grub and the ratemahatmaya

... rattan 1.a., rattan 2.a., red-tailed gallinule, rest-house, rilawa, rillow, rix-dollar 2., robin, rock snake, rock squirrel, rogue 5.a., rubiginous cat, ruby spar, rupee .) ... «Sunday Times.lk, Oct 11»

Urodziny amerykańskiego dolara: 6 lipca 1785 roku dolar stał się …

Z czasem w Europie monety przyjęły się jako talary, w Niemczech dostały oficjalną nazwę Reichsthaler, a w Anglii - rix-dollar. Dzięki popularności srebrnych ... «Forsal.pl, Jul 10»

Book Review: Red to Black by Alex Dryden

Finn has to navigate a world where information – the rix-dollar of the spy world – can be just as valuable and consequently just as deadly as money. Finn is ... «Blogcritics.org, Oct 09»