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If some highschool kids are supposed to know these words,should not you?
Dear Faldage: I do hope you don't get an agave necktie.
agave
n.
5ModL < Gr Agauc, a proper name, lit., illustrious, fem. of agauos, famous6 any of several plants (genus Agave) of the agave family, as the century plant: some agaves yield a fiber used for rope
adj.
designating a family (Agavaceae) of monocotyledonous desert plants (order Liliales)
agio
n.,pl. 3os# 5Fr < It aggio; ult. < LL adjectum, something added < L adjectus: see ADJECTIVE6 a fee paid to exchange one kind of money for another or to exchange depreciated money for money of full value
AGIO (Ital. aggio, exchange, discount, premium), a term used in commerce in three
slightly different connexions, (a) The variations from fixed pars or rates of exchange in the
currencies of different countries. For example, in most of the gold-standard countries, the
standard coin is kept up to a uniform point of fineness, so that an English sovereign fresh
from the mint will bear the following constant relation to coins of other countries in a similar
condition:—£i = frcs. 25-221 = mks. 20-429 = $4-867, &c. This is what is known as the
mint par of exchange. But the mint par of exchange, say, between France and England is
not necessarily the market value of French currency in England, or English currency in
France. The balance of trade between the various countries is the factor determining the
rate of exchange. Should the balance of trade (q.v.) be against England, money must be
remitted to France in payment of the indebtedness, but owing to the cost for/the
transmission of specie there will be a demand for bills drawn on Paris as a cheaper and
more expeditious method of sending money, and it therefore will be necessary, in order to
procure the one of the higher current value, to pay a premium for it, called the agio, (b) The
term is also used to denote the difference in exchange between two currencies in the same
country; where silver coinage is the legal tender, agio is sometimes allowed for payment in
the more convenient form of gold, or where the paper currency of a country is reduced
below the bullion which it professes to represent, an agio is payable on the appreciated
currency, (c) Lastly, in some states the coinage is so debased, owing to the wear of
circulation, that the real is greatly reduced below the nominal value. Supposing that this
reduction amounts to 5%, then if 100 sovereigns were offered as payment of a debt in
England while such sovereigns were current there at their nominal value, they would be
received as just payment; but if they were offered as payment of the same
Another business word: arbitrage, arbitrageur. One of Mihael Milken's buddies was called
an arbitrageur. I'll go search for his hame.
arbitrage
n.
5LME < Fr < arbitrer, to judge < L arbitrari: see ARBITRATE; for 2, < Fr arbitrage6
1 a simultaneous purchase and sale in two separate financial markets in order to profit from a price difference
agnolotto is a kind of pasta.
I am confused about the root, it is clearly a modification of agnolo , perhaps some relationship with angelo (angel). I have to look at home
Dear emanuela: Could "agnolo" mean "little lamb"?
agnolo = lamb :yes, yes
agnolo is archaic for agnello= lamb