different between agio vs agin

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian aggio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.d?o?/, /???.d?o?/, /?æ.d?i?o?/

Noun

agio (plural agios)

1. (economics, finance) The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.
   • 1989, Isaac Levy, translator, The Pentateuch (translation of, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Der Pentateuch, ubersetzt und erlautert), second edition, volume 2, Exodus, Judaica Press, ?ISBN, page 582 (commentary to Exodus 30:16),

     Owing to the enormous number of half-shekel coins required each year in Adar, these were greatly in demand, and the money-changers made a small fixed charge of an agio for changing whole into half shekels.

   • 1776, Adam Smith, An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, [1].

     The money of such banks being better than the common currency of the country, necessarily bore an agio, which was greater or smaller, according as the currency was supposed to be more or less degraded below the standard of the state.

Translations

Anagrams

• Iago

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian aggio.

Noun

agio n (plural agio's, diminutive agio'tje n)

1. agio

References

• https://www.vandale.nl/

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian aggio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.?jo/

Noun

agio m (plural agios)

1. exchange premium, agio

Further reading

• “agio” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch agio, from Italian aggio, from Old Occitan aize, from Vulgar Latin *adjace(m), from Latin adjac?ns, present participle of adjace? (compare Medieval Latin in aiace).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?a?io?]
• Hyphenation: agio

Noun

agio (first-person possessive agioku, second-person possessive agiomu, third-person possessive agionya)

1. (economics) agio.

Compounds

Further reading

• “agio” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan aize, from Vulgar Latin *adjace(m), from Latin adjac?ns, present participle of adjace? (compare Medieval Latin in aiace). Cognate with Old French aise, eise, French aise and aisance; compare also Catalan eina. Doublet of adiacente.

Noun

agio m (plural agi)

1. ease, comfort

   Antonym: disagio

2. luxury, comfort

Related terms

• adagio
• agiato

Verb

agio

1. first-person singular present indicative of agiare

Anagrams

• gaio

Romanian

Etymology

From Italian aggio.

Noun

agio n (plural agiuri)

1. agio

Declension

English

Etymology

From Scots agin, variant form of again (“against”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.???n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Hyphenation: a?gin

Adverb

agin (not comparable)

1. (colloquial or now often humorous) Alternative form of again
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities", in All the Year Round, vol. 1, p. 98:

     At which juncture, he exclaimed, in a voice of dire exasperation : “Bust me, if she ain't at it agin !”

Preposition

agin

1. (dialectal, colloquial, or now often humorous) Alternative form of against
   • 1859, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 19, p. 278:

     [The Court] said: "Young man, this ere Court is satisfied that there ain't nothin' in the laws of Vermont agin tippin' over a churn full of sap. […] But I want ye should remember one thing—that this ere Court has made up his mind that it's a very naughty trick, and it's a shame that there's so many maple-trees in the State, and no law agin tippin' over sap."

Anagrams

• Agni, Angi, Gain, Gina, NGIA, Nagi, Ngai, a- -ing, gain, gain-, gina, inga

Scots

Preposition

agin

1. Alternative form of again