cruzado

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a former currency of Brazil, introduced in 1986 and divided into one hundred centavos

   Brazil replaced the cruzeiro with the cruzado in 1986.

2. 2
   noun

   historical: any of several Portuguese or Castilian coins and monetary units, especially a Portuguese gold or silver coin marked with a cross

   The merchant's account valued the bullion at eighteen million Portuguese cruzados.

Borrowed from Portuguese cruzado, literally 'marked with a cross,' from cruz, 'cross,' plus -ado. The Portuguese coin was named for the cross stamped on it; the same name was later reused for Brazil's late-twentieth-century currency.

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