The sol , later called a sou , is the name of a number of different coins, for accounting or payment, dating from Antiquity to today. The name is derived from the late-Roman and Byzantine solidus . Its longevity of use anchored it in many expressions of the French language .
16-570: [REDACTED] Look up sou , Sou , or SOU in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sou or SOU may refer to: People [ edit ] Sou (surname) , a Cantonese romanization of the Chinese surname Su Sō , a Japanese surname and given name Culture [ edit ] Sou (French coin) , various French coins, later called sous. Penny (Canadian coin) , colloquially called
32-422: A four sou coin is a twenty Swiss centime coin. The word sou also remains in informal language in the terms "ten, twenty ... sous". The French term sou was borrowed into Vietnamese as the word xu / su (樞). The term is usually used to simply mean the word "coin" often in compound in the forms of đồng xu (銅樞) or tiền xu (錢樞). The modern Vietnamese đồng is nominally divided into 100 xu . Used for over
48-772: A sou in Quebec Sou (album) , studio album by Marcelo Camelo Sou (film) , a film by Theodore Ushev for Shorts in Motion: The Art of Seduction Sou (pastry) , a type of food pastry Southern Thai language , ISO 639-3 language code SOU [ edit ] Special Operations Unit (disambiguation) Southampton Airport , England (IATA code SOU) Southampton Central railway station , England (National Rail code SOU) Southern Oregon University , United States Southern Railway (U.S.) (railroad reporting mark SOU) Statens offentliga utredningar , an official series of reports of committees appointed by
64-648: A sou in Quebec Sou (album) , studio album by Marcelo Camelo Sou (film) , a film by Theodore Ushev for Shorts in Motion: The Art of Seduction Sou (pastry) , a type of food pastry Southern Thai language , ISO 639-3 language code SOU [ edit ] Special Operations Unit (disambiguation) Southampton Airport , England (IATA code SOU) Southampton Central railway station , England (National Rail code SOU) Southern Oregon University , United States Southern Railway (U.S.) (railroad reporting mark SOU) Statens offentliga utredningar , an official series of reports of committees appointed by
80-570: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages sou [REDACTED] Look up sou , Sou , or SOU in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sou or SOU may refer to: People [ edit ] Sou (surname) , a Cantonese romanization of the Chinese surname Su Sō , a Japanese surname and given name Culture [ edit ] Sou (French coin) , various French coins, later called sous. Penny (Canadian coin) , colloquially called
96-477: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Sou (French coin) The solidus is a coin made of 4.5 g of gold , created by emperor Constantine to replace the aureus . Doing honour to its name, the new currency earned the reputation of unalterability, crossing almost unchanged the decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire , and
112-602: The solidus no longer represents 1/12 of the Roman gold pound but 1/20 of the Carolingian silver pound instead. The sou itself was divided into 12 denarii and one denarius was worth 10 asses . With rare exceptions (such as Saint Louis ' "gros" ), the denarius was for a long time in practice the only coin in circulation, with solidi and pounds used only as accounting units. Charlemagne's general principle of 12 denarii worth one sol and of twenty sols worth one pound
128-570: The 1/100 division of the Canadian dollar . The official term is "cent". Canadian one-cent coins (no longer in circulation) have the vernacular name of " sou noir ". The Canadian quarter , valued at 25 cents, is called trente sous ("thirty sous"). This usage dates from when the word “ sou ” was used in French-speaking Lower Canada to refer to the halfpenny coin of the Canadian pound ; at that time an American quarter
144-427: The 1940s, but the word "sou" keeps being used (except for the 1960 new franc's five-centime coin which was worth five old francs). The term 'sou' is often used in the exclamation "haven't got a sou". This is to denote that one has no money, not even a single coin. This phrase is used mostly without the knowledge of the source of the word 'sou'. In Canadian French , the word "sou" is used in everyday language and means
160-631: The Swedish Government Sound of Urchin , American eclectic alternative rock band Southland railway station , Melbourne Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sou . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sou&oldid=1224225268 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
176-554: The Swedish Government Sound of Urchin , American eclectic alternative rock band Southland railway station , Melbourne Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sou . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sou&oldid=1224225268 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732772228366192-591: The great invasions and the creation of Germanic kingdoms throughout Europe . Not only was it issued in the Byzantine Empire until the 11th century under the name of nomisma , but the solidus was imitated by the barbarian kings, particularly the Merovingians , albeit most often in the form of a "third of a sou" ( tremissis ). Facing a shortage of gold, Charlemagne introduced a new "stabilization" (as devaluations are often called): from then on
208-426: The language, from Latin to French . Solidus became soldus , then solt in the 11th century, then sol a century later. In the 18th century, the spelling of sol was adapted to sou so as to be closer to the pronunciation that had previously become the norm for several centuries. In 1795, the livre was officially replaced by the franc and the sou became obsolete as an official currency division. Nevertheless,
224-525: The term " sou " survived as a slang term for 1 ⁄ 20 of a franc. Thus, the large bronze 5-centime coin was called " sou " (for example in Balzac or Victor Hugo ), the " pièce de cent sous " ("hundred sous coin") meant five francs and was also called " écu " (as in Zola 's Germinal ). The last 5-centime coin, a remote souvenir inherited from the " franc germinal ", was removed from circulation in
240-455: Was eventually declined along many variants according to the alloy used and the dual metal gold: silver sometimes used for some issues. Only members of the money changers corporation could find their way among the equivalences and the many currencies used in Europe at each period, and therefore were unavoidable for most non-local commercial operations. The name evolved, along with the rest of
256-466: Was valued at 1 shilling 3 pence Canadian (i.e. 15 pence Canadian), and the usage remained after Canada switched currencies. " Échanger quatre trente sous pour une piastre " ("to exchange four 30 sous for one piastre") therefore means changing something for an identical thing, as the "piastre" is the common name for the Canadian dollar. In Switzerland , a hundred-sou coin is a five Swiss franc coin and
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