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語源

From French tontine, named after Lorenzo de Tonti, who introduced the scheme into France in around 1653. Thus, from Tonti +‎ -ine.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /tɒnˈtiːn/, /ˈtɒnˌtiːn/
• IPA: /ˈtɒntaɪn/

名詞

tontine (plural tontines)

1. (finance, insurance) A form of investment in which, on the death of an investor, his share is divided amongst the other investors.
   • 1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, chapter 1, in The Wrong Box‎:

     When Joseph Finsbury and his brother Masterman were little lads in white-frilled trousers, their father—a well-to-do merchant in Cheapside—caused them to join a small but rich tontine of seven-and-thirty lives.

   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 634:

     There were many speculative schemes which gambled on the expectation of an individual's life, as in the tontine system, whereby all the group's contributions went to the last survivor.

   • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 237:

     They were pleasantly high, but in an almost self-conscious way, as if they were members of a tontine blessed by the unexpected death of two or three of its members.

派生語

参考

• dead pool (a misnomer for tontine)

アナグラム

• nonetti