different between discount vs agio

English

Etymology

Alteration of French descompte, décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter (“reckon off, account back, discount”), from Medieval Latin discomput? (“I deduct, discount”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + comput? (“I reckon, count”).

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • (in some senses) enPR: d?skount?, IPA^(key): /d?s?ka?nt/
  • (in some senses) enPR: d?s?kount, IPA^(key): /?d?ska?nt/
• Noun and adjective:
  • enPR: d?s?kount, IPA^(key): /?d?ska?nt/
• Rhymes: -a?nt

Verb

discount (third-person singular simple present discounts, present participle discounting, simple past and past participle discounted)

1. To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.

   Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.

2. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest
   • 1692, William Walsh, Letter on the present state of the Currency of Great Britain

     Discount only unexceptionable paper.

3. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
4. To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.

   • Of the three opinions, (I discount Brown's), under this head, one supposes that the law of Causality is a positive affirmation, and a primary fact of thought, incapable of all further analysis.

   They discounted his comments.

5. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount
6. (psychology, transactional analysis) To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

Translations

Noun

discount (plural discounts)

1. A reduction in price.

   This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too.

2. (finance) A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
3. The rate of interest charged in discounting.
4. (psychology, transactional analysis) The act of one who believes, or act as though they believe, that their own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

Synonyms

• (reduction in price): rebate, reduction

Antonyms

• surcharge

Derived terms

• discountable
• quantity discount
• rediscount

Descendants

• German: Discount

Translations

Adjective

discount (not comparable)

1. (of a store) Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.

   If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.

Further reading

• discount in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• discount in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• discount at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• conduits, ductions, noctuids

Italian

Etymology

From English discount.

Noun

discount m (invariable)

1. discount store

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