Leu

Definition: Leu

Leu

Noun

1. The basic unit of money in Romania.

Date "leu" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

"Leu" is a common misspelling or typo for: lea, led, lee, leg, lei, let, lieu.

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Leu

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
LEU	English	Low enriched uranium	Nuclear Energy & Physics
LEU	Greek	ουράνιο χαμηλού βαθμού εμπλουτισμού	Nuclear Energy & Physics
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Specialty Definition: Leu

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The leu (plural: lei, ISO 4217 code ROL) is the national currency of Romania and has been since the founding of the National Bank of Romania in 1880. One leu is subdivided into 100 bani (singular: ban).

Etymology

In the 17th century, Dutch thalers bearing a lion circulated in the Romanian states were often called lei (lions). The name was kept as a generic term for money until it became in the 19th century the national currency.

History

After the Crimean War, a bimetallic currency was adopted, with the lei (franc) of 100 bani (centimes) as the unit of value. But after 1878 the Russian silver Rouble was rated so highly as to drive the native coins out of circulation; and in 1889 Romania joined the Latin Monetary Union and adopted a gold standard. Besides the silver pieces worth 3/4, 1, 2 and 5 lei, gold coins of 5, 10 and 20 ley were used. Silver was legal tender only up to 50 lei. All taxes and customs dues were to be paid in gold, and, owing to the small quantities issued from the Romanian mint, foreign gold were current, especially French 20-franc pieces (equal at par to 20 lei), Turkish gold lire (22.70), Old Russian Imperials (20.60) and English Sovereignss of (25.22). Besides bronze coins of less value than 1/2 tell, nickel pieces worth 5, 10 and 20 bani were authorized by a law of 1900.

Current legal tender

As of December 2003, the following notes and coins are in circulation:

coins: 500 lei; 1000 lei; 5,000 lei

notes: 2,000 lei; 10,000 lei; 50,000 lei; 100,000 lei; 500,000 lei; 1,000,000 lei

The exchange rate is (as of December 2003): 1 € = 40,000 lei; 1 US$ = 33,000 lei

Future

A revaluation of the leu is expected to take place in the first quarter of 2005, at the rate of 1 New Leu = 10,000 lei.

External links

www.bnro.ro - Banca Naţională a României (National Bank of Romania)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Leu."

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Crosswords: Leu

English words defined with "leu": ban. (references)

Specialty definitions using "leu": Moldovan leu ♦ RNA, Transfer, Leu. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Leu" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Papiamen (away, distant, far, remote), Romanian (lion).

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Commercial Usage: Leu

Domain	Title
Books	Harvard Studies in Romance Languages 24-25 Le Jongleur Gautier Le Leu and Les Amphorismes Ypocras (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Leu

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	A few moments more elapsed, then a sound of steps, measured, heavy, numerous, was distinctly heard from the direction of Saint Leu.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Leu

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Moldova	Currency: Moldovan Leu (plural lei). (references)
	Moldova	The amendments also included a provision to sell bankrupt enterprises or unfinished construction items for the symbolic price of one Moldovan Leu (about seven U.S. cents). (references)
	Moldova	Despite the fact that the National Bank's foreign exchange reserves are at a comfortable USD 222.7 million (April 2001), risk for further Leu depreciation remains high if the IMF does not resume financial support to Moldova. (references)
Political Economy	ROMANIA	The foreign exchange market was liberalized in February 1997. The Leu is fully convertible for current account transactions and foreign investment. (references)
	ROMANIA	The Leu depreciated less in 2001 compared to 2000. For the first half of the year, the nominal devaluation was 12.5 percent, while the real appreciation was 2.3 percent. (references)
Trade	Romania	They are permitted to maintain leu accounts to purchase goods domestically. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Leu

"Leu" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Leu" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	71.43%	10	111,207
Noun (proper)	28.57%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	14	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Leu

The following table summarizes the usage of "leu" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Leu	Last name	1,000	13,473
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Leu

Expression using "leu": Moldovan leu. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "leu": leu-try, Leu-val.
	Containing "leu": acetyl-Leu-Leu-norleucinal.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Leu

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
leu garden	47
leu	34
filip leu	14
asset bank leu management	11
michael leu	10
harry p leu garden	10
leu lucy	6
garden leu orlando	5
filip leu tattoo	3
age leu perkier	3
garden leu wedding	3
bank leu	2
beat leu	2
fleuve leu	2
leu monnaie	2
chine leu	2
family iron leu	2
florida garden leu orlando	2
clothing leu michael	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Leu

Language		Translations for "leu"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏بادئة معناها أبيض. (various references)

Bulgarian		лей. (various references)

Danish		monoklonal OKT4 antistof (Leu 3, OKT 4), monoklonal Leu antistof (Leu 3, OKT 4), monklonal CD4 antistof (Leu 3, OKT 4), moldavisk leu (Moldovan leu), MDL (Moldovan leu). (various references)

Dutch		monoklonale OKT4-antilichamen (Leu 3, OKT 4), monoklonale Leu3-antilichamen (Leu 3, OKT 4), Moldavische leu (Moldovan leu), MDL (Moldovan leu). (various references)

Finnish		Moldovan leu (Moldovan leu), MDL (Moldovan leu). (various references)

French		blanc. (various references)

German		monoklonale Antikörper vom CD4 Typ (Leu 3, OKT 4), Moldau-Leu (Moldovan leu), MDL (Moldovan leu). (various references)

Greek		MDL (management entity-data link layer, Moldovan leu), μονοκλωνικό αντίσωμα Leu3 (Leu 3, OKT 4), μονοκλωνικό αντίσωμα ΟΚΤ4 (Leu 3, OKT 4), λέι Μολδαβίας (Moldovan leu). (various references)

Italian		leu moldavo (Moldovan leu), MDL (Moldovan leu), anticorpo monoclonale OKT4 (Leu 3, OKT 4), anticorpo monoclonale Leu 3 (Leu 3, OKT 4). (various references)

Pig Latin		eulay

Portuguese		lev 3 (Leu 3, OKT 4), leu moldavo (Moldovan leu), OKT 4 (Leu 3, OKT 4), MDL (Moldovan leu). (various references)

Spanish		leu moldavo (Moldovan leu), MDL (Moldovan leu), célula T8 (CD8 cell, CD8 lymphocyte, Leu-2 cell, OKT8 cell, OKT8 lymphocyte, T suppressor/cytotoxic cell, T8 cell, T8 lymphocyte), anticuerpo monoclonal OKT4 (Leu 3, OKT 4), anticuerpo monoclonal Leu 3 (Leu 3, OKT 4), anticuerpo monoclonal CD4 (Leu 3, OKT 4). (various references)

Swedish		Leu 3 (Leu 3, OKT 4), OKT 4 (Leu 3, OKT 4), moldovansk leu (Moldovan leu), MDL (Moldovan leu), CD4-antikropp (Leu 3, OKT 4), anti-CD4 (Leu 3, OKT 4). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Leu

Derivations
	Words beginning with "leu": leucemia, leucemias, leucemic, leucin, leucine, leucines, leucins, leucite, leucites, leucitic, leucocidin, leucocidins, leucoma, leucomas, leucoplast, leucoplasts, leud, leudes, leuds, leukaemia, leukaemias, leukaemogeneses, leukaemogenesis, leukemia, leukemias, leukemic, leukemics, leukemogeneses, leukemogenesis, leukemogenic, leukemoid, leukocyte, leukocytes, leukocytic, leukocytoses, leukocytosis, leukodystrophies, leukodystrophy, leukoma, leukomas, leukon, leukons, leukopenia, leukopenias, leukopenic, leukoplakia, leukoplakias, leukoplakic, leukopoieses, leukopoiesis, leukopoietic. (additional references)
	Words containing "leu": aculeus, aleuron, aleurone, aleurones, aleurons, antileukemic, coleus, coleuses, derailleur, derailleurs, enfleurage, enfleurages, fleury, ileum, ileus, ileuses, interleukin, interleukins, isoleucine, isoleucines, jongleur, jongleurs, linoleum, linoleums, macronucleus, macronucleuses, malleus, mausoleum, mausoleums, micronucleus, micronucleuses, millefleur, millefleurs, nonpetroleum, nonpetroleums, nucleus, nucleuses, oleum, oleums, panleukopenia, panleukopenias, petroleum, petroleums, pileum, pileup, pileups, pileus, pleura, pleurae, pleural, pleuras. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Leu"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "leu" (pronounced luw")
2	l uw"	blew, blue, clue, flew, flu, flue, glue, hullabaloo, lieu, loo, plew, slew, unglue.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Leu

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-l-u"
	-1 letter: el.
	Words containing the letters "e-l-u"
	+1 letter: blue, clue, duel, flue, fuel, glue, leku, leud, lieu, lube, luce, lude, lues, luge, lune, lure, lute, luxe, mule, pule, rule, slue, tule, yule.
	+2 letters: blued, bluer, blues, bluet, bluey, blume, boule, bugle, bulge, butle, clued, clues, cruel, culet, culex, cupel, duels, dulse, duple, elude, elute, equal, exult, flued, flues, fluke, flume, flute, fuels, fugle, fusel, glued, gluer, glues, gluey, glume, gruel, guile, gules, ileum, ileus, joule, julep, jurel, kluge, kugel, lehua, lemur, letup, leuds, lieus, louie, loupe, louse, lubed, lubes, luces, lucre, ludes, luged, luger, luges, lumen, lunes, lunet, lunge, lured, lurer, lures, lutea, luted, lutes, luxes, muled, mules, muley, oleum, ousel, ouzel, ovule, plume, puled, puler, pules, pulse, quale, quell, ruble, ruled, ruler, rules, slued, slues, tules, tulle, ulcer, ulema, ulnae, umbel, uncle, unled, unlet, ureal, utile, uveal, value, velum, yules.
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