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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

doblone

Pronunciation / Transliteration: do-blo-ne

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Doublon/duˈblɔ̃/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #14500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Il capitano teneva un doblone d'oro nella sua tasca."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An obsolete gold coin of Spain and Spanish America, formerly worth two pistoles.

    "The pirate chest was filled with gleaming gold doubloons."
  2. 2

    A duplicate or double copy of an item or document.

    "The archivist carefully cataloged the historical doublon alongside the original manuscript."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the French adjective double (meaning 'double'), tracing back to the Latin duplus. Historically used in numismatics to describe a Spanish gold coin worth double a pistole, and later adopted in computing and philology to denote a duplicate copy.

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