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eighteenpence en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw Proto-Germanic *ahtōu Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Germanic *tehun Proto-Germanic *ahtōutehun Anglian Old English eahtatēne Middle English eightetene English eighteen Pre-Greekder.? Ancient Greek πᾰτᾰ́νη (pătắnē)bor. Latin patina Latin panna? Latin pannus? Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.? Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Germanic *-īnaz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz ? Proto-Germanic *-ingaz Proto-Germanic *panningaz Proto-West Germanic *panning Old English peniġ Middle English peniesder. English pence English eighteenpence From eighteen + pence.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The monetary amount of eighteen pence.
   • Akrofi, to pay for a cutlass he has bought for eighteenpence to begin farming, agrees to work free... 1974, O R Dathorne, The Black Mind: A History of African Literature:
   • Paddy and I set aside eighteenpence for our beds, and spent threepence on the usual tea-and-two-slices, which we shared—an appetizer rather than a meal. 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXIII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:

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