toston

== Tagalog == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish tostón, borrowed from Portuguese tostão, borrowed from French teston, borrowed from Italian testone, from testa (“head”) + -one. The coin was named as such because they a head engraved on them. === Pronunciation === (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /tosˈton/ [t̪osˈt̪on̪] Rhymes: -on Syllabification: tos‧ton === Noun === tostón (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜓᜈ᜔) (historical) tostón (a coin worth half a peso or four Spanish reales); fifty-centavo coin Synonyms: (historical) salapi, (obsolete) batngin desert horsepurslane (Trianthema portulacastrum) === Further reading === “toston”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018