coin

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复数: coins;第三人称单数: coins;过去式: coined;过去分词: coined;现在分词: coining;

coin 硬币，创造新词语

词源同cone, cuneiform(楔形). 来自PIE*ak, 尖，刺，见acid, acumen. 最早指铸造货币的楔形模子，后指铸造的硬币及创造义。

coin: coin: [14] Latin cuneus meant ‘wedge’ (from it we get cuneiform ‘wedge-shaped script’). It passed into Old French as coing or coin, where it developed a variety of new meanings. Primary amongst these was ‘corner-stone’ or ‘corner’, a sense preserved in English mainly in the now archaic spelling quoin. But also, since the die for stamping out money was often wedge-shaped, or operated in the manner of a wedge, it came to be referred to as a coin, and the term soon came to be transferred to the pieces of money themselves.
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coin (n.): c. 1300, "a wedge," from Old French coing (12c.) "a wedge; stamp; piece of money; corner, angle," from Latin cuneus "a wedge." The die for stamping metal was wedge-shaped, and the English word came to mean "thing stamped, a piece of money" by late 14c. (a sense that already had developed in French). Compare quoin, which split off from this word 16c. Modern French coin is "corner, angle, nook." Coins were first struck in western Asia Minor in 7c. B.C.E.; Greek tradition and Herodotus credit the Lydians with being first to make and use coins of silver and gold.
coin (v.): "to coin money," mid-14c., from coin (n.). Related: Coined; coining. To coin a phrase is late 16c. A Middle English word for minter was coin-smiter.

2. Thirteen per cent of Christie's coin and banknote auction went unsold.: 佳士得13%的硬币和纸币拍卖流拍。

5. Coin-operated telephones took 100, 200 and 500 lire coins.: 投币电话接受100，200和500里拉的硬币。