different between premium vs agio

English

Alternative forms

• præmium (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin praemium (“prize”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?imi?m/

Adjective

premium (not comparable)

1. Superior in quality; higher in price or value.
2. (automotive) High-end; belonging to the market segment between mid-market and luxury.

   Coordinate terms: economy, luxury

Translations

Noun

premium (plural premiums or premia)

1. A prize or award.
2. Something offered at a reduced price as an inducement to buy something else.
3. A bonus paid in addition to normal payments.
4. (insurance) The amount to be paid for an insurance policy.
5. An unusually high value.
6. (finance) The amount by which a security's value exceeds its face value.

Translations

Usage notes

• Premia is much less common than premiums, accounting for less than 1% of total usage in US (COCA) and in UK (BNC).

Antonyms

• (finance): discount

Derived terms

Further reading

• Premium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Premium in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

French

Noun

premium m (plural premiums)

1. premium

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin praemium (“prize”). Doublet of premi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pre?mi?m]
• Hyphenation: pré?mi?um

Noun

premium or prémium

1. premium:

   Synonym: premi

   1. A prize, a reward.

      Synonym: hadiah

   2. A premium, money paid for e.g. an insurance.
2. Something superior in quality; higher in price or value.
   1. (colloquial) Pertamina petrol or gasoline product with octane rating of 88.

Further reading

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

Spanish

Adjective

premium (invariable)

1. premium

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