different between inferior vs agio
inferior
English
Alternative forms
- inferiour (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ?nferior (“lower in situation or place”), comparative of ?nferus (“below, underneath”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?nfîr??r
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?f??.?i.?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?f??.i.?/
- Rhymes: -???i?(?)
Adjective
inferior (comparative more inferior, superlative most inferior)
- Lower in rank, status, or quality.
- Of low rank, standard or quality.
- (law) (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
- (economics) Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
- Of low rank, standard or quality.
- Located below:
- (anatomy) Situated below another and especially another similar superior part of an upright body.
- (zoology) Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
- (botany) Situated below some other organ; said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx.
- (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
- Synonym: anterior
- (typography) Printed in subscript.
- (astronomy) Below the horizon.
- (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
Usage notes
Inferior and superior are generally followed by to; than is seen sometimes, but is viewed as wrong.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:bad
Antonyms
- superior
Coordinate terms
- (dentistry location adjectives) anterior,? apical,? apicocoronal,? axial,? buccal,? buccoapical,? buccocervical,? buccogingival,? buccolabial,? buccolingual,? bucco-occlusal,? buccopalatal,? cervical,? coronal,? coronoapical,? distal,? distoapical,? distobuccal,? distocervical,? distocoronal,? distofacial,? distogingival,? distoincisal,? distolingual,? disto-occlusal,? distoclusal,? distocclusal,? distopalatal,? facial,? gingival,? incisal,? incisocervical,? inferior,? labial,? lingual,? linguobuccal,? linguo-occlusal,? mandibular,? maxillary,? mesial,? mesioapical,? mesiobuccal,? mesiocervical,? mesiocoronal,? mesiodistal,? mesiofacial,? mesioincisal,? mesiogingival,? mesiolingual,? mesio-occlusal,? mesioclusal,? mesiocclusal,? mesiopalatal,? occlusal,? palatal,? posterior,? proximal,? superior,? vestibular (Category: en:Dentistry) [edit]
Derived terms
Related terms
- Armenia Inferior
- limit inferior
Translations
Noun
inferior (plural inferiors)
- A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another.
- Antonym: superior
- (printing) An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.
Translations
References
- “inferior”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “inferior”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
- inferior in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- inferior at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- fire iron, fireiron
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin ?nferior.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /im.f?.?i?o/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /im.fe.?i?o?/
Adjective
inferior (masculine and feminine plural inferiors)
- inferior
- lower
Related terms
- inferioritat
Further reading
- “inferior” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “inferior” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “inferior” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “inferior” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ?nferior (“lower, inferior”), the comparative of ?nferus (“low, nether, underground”).
Adjective
inferior (not comparable)
- subordinate, secondary
- (of people) inferior
- substandard, bad
Declension
Further reading
- “inferior” in Duden online
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /in?fe.ri.or/, [???f??i?r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in?fe.ri.or/, [in?f???i?r]
Adjective
?nferior (neuter ?nferius, positive ?nferus); third declension
- comparative degree of ?nferus, lower in situation or place:
- Subsequent, later, latter in time or succession.
- Inferior in quality, rank, or number.
Inflection
Third-declension comparative adjective.
Related terms
- infimus (superlative)
Descendants
References
- inferior in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- inferior in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inferior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin ?nferior.
Pronunciation
Adjective
inferior m (feminine singular inferiora, masculine plural inferiors, feminine plural inferioras)
- inferior
- lower
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin inferior.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /?.f???jo?/
- Hyphenation: in?fe?ri?or
Adjective
inferior m or f (plural inferiores, comparable)
- inferior
- Antonym: superior
Romanian
Etymology
From French inférieur, from Latin inferior.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?in.fe.ri?or/
Adjective
inferior m or n (feminine singular inferioar?, masculine plural inferiori, feminine and neuter plural inferioare)
- inferior
Declension
Antonyms
- superior
Related terms
- inferioritate
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin inferior.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /infe??jo?/, [??.fe??jo?]
- Hyphenation: in?fe?rior
Adjective
inferior (plural inferiores)
- inferior (of lower quality)
- inferior (of lower rank)
- inferior (below)
Antonyms
- superior
Derived terms
Related terms
- inferioridad
Further reading
- “inferior” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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agio
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian aggio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æ.d?o?/, /???.d?o?/, /?æ.d?i?o?/
Noun
agio (plural agios)
- (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.
- 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),
Translations
Anagrams
- Iago
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian aggio.
Noun
agio n (plural agio's, diminutive agio'tje n)
- agio
References
- https://www.vandale.nl/
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian aggio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.?jo/
Noun
agio m (plural agios)
- 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)
- (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)
- ease, comfort
- Antonym: disagio
- luxury, comfort
Related terms
- adagio
- agiato
Verb
agio
- first-person singular present indicative of agiare
Anagrams
- gaio
Romanian
Etymology
From Italian aggio.
Noun
agio n (plural agiuri)
- agio
Declension
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