“pice”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

pice

释义

▪ I. ‖ pice|paɪs|
Also 7 pise, peise, peyse, 8 pyce, 9 pyse.
[ad. Hindī paisā (in all the Gauḍian langs.), a copper coin, the fourth part of an ānā: supposed by some to be a deriv. of pā′i or pa′ī:—Skr. pad, padī, quarter. See also pie n.⁵]
A small East Indian copper coin equal in value to one-fourth of an anna.
1615W. Peyton in Purchas Pilgrims I. 530 Pice, which is a Copper Coyne; twelve drammes make one Pice.1616Terry ibid. II. 1471 Brasse money, which they call Pices, whereof three or thereabouts counteruaile a Peny.1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 205 The Company's Accounts are kept in Book-rate Pice,..80 Pice to the Rupee.c1813Mrs. Sherwood Stories Ch. Catech. xv. 125 Every pice that I could lay hold of went for liquor.1862Beveridge Hist. India II. iv. ii. 76 If by so doing they can gain a few pice.
Hence ˈpiceworth, as much as a pice purchases.
1832Morton Bengali & Sanscrit Prov. 127 A thousand crows crowding about a pice-worth of sauce.1904Nineteenth Cent. Aug. 289 A piceworth of your horse's grain.
▪ II. pice
see also paisa.

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