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‖ vintem Hist.|vintɛ̃|
Forms: α. 6 vintiin (vinton), 7 ventin, vinteen, 8 vinten, 8–9 vintin. β. 8–9 vintain. γ. 8–9 vintem.
[Pg. vintem, f. vinte twenty.]
In the coinage of Portugal and countries subsequently colonized from there: A small silver coin of the value of 20 reis; also, a copper coin of the same value.
α1584Barret in Hakluyt Voy. (1599) II. i. 274, 5 vintons make a tanga, and 4 vintenas make a tanga of base money. 1598W. Phillip tr. Linschoten i. xxxv. 69/1 There is like⁓wise a reckoning of Vintiins, which is not likewise in coyne, but onely named in telling: of these foure good, and fiue badde doe make a Tangas. 1662J. Davies tr. Mandelslo's Trav. ii. (1669) 86 Eight of these Basarucques make a Ventin. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 207 The Tango, 5 Vinteens. 1743Bulkeley & Cummins Voy. S. Seas 206 We had hitherto been suppli'd at the Rate of eight Vintins each Man per Day. 1775Twiss Trav. Portug. & Sp. 22 Exacting a vinten, or about three halfpence per head. 1805T. Lindley Voy. Brazil 260 The ships..sell the beef on board by retail, at two vintins a pound.
β1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Coin, Portuguese Coins... The Vintain, whereof they have two sorts, the one Silver, and the other Billon. 1819J. H. Vaux Mem. I. 218 They stop, and empty their [water-] vessel, for which they receive a vintain.
γ1736Chandler Hist. Persec. 183 Dr. Geddes tells us of one..who was allowed no more than three Vintems a day; a Vintem is about an English penny farthing. 1801Southey in C. C. Southey Life (1849) II. 130 The ferry price varies..from one vintem to nine,—that is, from a penny to a shilling. 1839Penny Cycl. XV. 326/2 At Rio de Janeiro..there are vintems of copper also current for 20 rees. 1856H. Owen Here & There in Portugal 122, I purchased..for three vintems (a trifle more than three⁓pence), a capital figure of a negro dandy. |