Editing Groschen (section)

== Names and etymology ==
[[File:Groschen.jpg|thumb|upright|[[State of the Teutonic Order|Teutonic Order]] groschen of the 14th century]]

The name was introduced in 13th-century France as ''{{lang|la|[denarius] grossus}}'', lit. "thick [[French denier|penny]]", whence Old French ''{{lang|fro|gros}}'', Italian ''{{lang|it|grosso}}'', Middle High German ''{{lang|gmh|gros(se)}}'', Low German and Dutch ''{{lang|nds|grōte}}'' and English ''[[groat (coin)|groat]]''.  In the 14th century, it appeared as [[Old Czech]]  ''{{lang|cs|groš}}'',<ref>[http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/WBB/woerterbuecher/dwb/wbgui?lemmode=lemmasearch&mode=hierarchy&textsize=600&onlist=&word=groschen&lemid=GG25804&query_start=1&totalhits=0&textword=&locpattern=&textpattern=&lemmapattern=&verspattern=#GG25804L0 ''Groschen''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110418040650/http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/WBB/woerterbuecher/dwb/wbgui?lemmode=lemmasearch#GG25804L0 |date=2011-04-18 }} in the Grimm online dictionary</ref> whence Modern German ''{{lang|de|[[:wikt:Groschen|Groschen]]}}''.

Names in other modern languages include:

* {{langx|sq|grosh}}
* {{langx|am|gersh}}
* {{langx|ar|qirsh}}
* [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]], [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]], [[Russian language|Russian]],  [[Belarusian language|Belarusian]], [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]: грош
* [[Czech language|Czech]], [[Slovak language|Slovak]], [[Serbo-Croatian]]: ''groš''
* {{langx|nl|groot}}
* {{langx|et|kross}}
* {{langx|fr|gros}}
* {{langx|el|γρόσι}}
* {{langx|he|grush}}
* {{langx|hu|garas}}
* {{langx|lt|grašis}}
* {{langx|pl|grosz}}
* {{langx|ro|groș}}
* {{langx|yi|גראָשן}} (''{{lang|yi-Latn|grošn}}'')
* {{langx|tr|kuruş}}

The Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew, Greek and Turkish names for currency denominations in and around the territories formerly part of the [[Ottoman Empire]] derived from the same Italian origin.