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語源

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman finaunce; by surface analysis, fyn (“end”) +‎ -aunce (“-ance”). First attested in 1418.

発音

• IPA: /fiˈna(u̯)ns(ə)/, /ˈfina(u̯)ns(ə)/

名詞

fynaunce (uncountable) (Late Middle English)

1. A ransom (payment for a captive's release):

   Synonym: raunsoun

   1. (Christianity, figurative) Christ's sacrifice or the redemption it provides.
2. (especially Early Scots) A fund or supply (of goods or money).
3. (rare) The conclusion or outcome of something.

   Synonym: endynge (more common)

4. (rare) Compensation (or retribution) for a debt or wrong.
5. (Early Scots, rare) Fineness (precious metal content)

派生した語

• English: finance
• Middle Scots: finance, fynance

参照

• “finaunce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “finance, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “finance, fynance, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.