Noun: forint
| Singular | forint |
| Plural | forints |
Sample Sentences
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Better yet, there were no cover charges, and we didn’t bother to order drinks in half the spots. So, despite having a Slovak beer and shots of both the traditional Hungarian fruit spirit palinka and the bittersweet digestif Unicum, the entire evening cost 2,000 forints, under $10. [2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times:]
Nouns inflected like forint
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Hungarian forint, from Italian fiorino (“florin, the former currency of Tuscany”). Doublet of florin. See: Hungarian Nouns '
forint', Italian Nouns '
fiorino'.