thaler

• taler

Borrowed from German Thaler, an abbreviation of Joachimsthaler, after Sankt Joachimsthal, the German city in which some of the earliest thalers were minted in 1518. Doublet of dollar and tolar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːləɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːlə(ɹ)

thaler (plural thalers or thaler)

1. (historical, numismatics) A monetary unit used in a number of central and northern European countries, known locally as daalder (Netherlands), daler (Scandinavia), Taler, Thaler (Germany), etc.
   • 1917 May 27, Lucius Verus, “Austria's Long Hatred of the German Bridle; […]”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 December 2025:

     [I]n exchange for the 350,000 thaler paid to his royal cousin, the sly Prussian Prince received the Polish territories of Nordhausen, Petersberg, and Quedlinburg, […] Frederick favored neither suggestion and decided to add another 100,000 thaler to the 350,000 paid to August II. of Saxony; […]

2. (historical, numismatics) The currency of Baden from 1829 to 1837, valued at 100 Kreuzer.

• dollar
• tallero

• relath, Hartel, lather, Hartle, halter, Thrale, rathel

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thaler m (plural thalers)

1. alternative spelling of taler

• “thaler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈθalɛr/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈθaːlɛr/, /ˈθalɛr/

thaler

1. aspirate mutation of taler