different between percentage vs agio

English

Etymology

From Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), +? -age.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??s?nt?d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??s?nt?d??/
• Hyphenation: per?cent?age

Noun

percentage (plural percentages)

1. The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.

   A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.

2. A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.

   She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.

3. (informal) Benefit or advantage.

   There was no percentage in staying at home.

Usage notes

• A percentage is often denoted by the character (%).

Ex. 50% denotes 50 per cent.

Derived terms

Related terms

• percent
• percentile

Translations

Dutch

Alternative forms

• procentage (archaic)

Etymology

From percent +? -age. Cf. English percentage, French percentage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?r.s?n?ta?.??/
• Hyphenation: per?cen?ta?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

percentage n (plural percentages)

1. percentage (amount or rate as part of 100)

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