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单词 palintocia
释义

palintocian.

Forms: 1600s 1800s palintocia, 1800s palintokia.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: French palintocia; Greek παλιντοκία.
Etymology: < Middle French palintocia (1572 in the passage translated in quot. 1603) and its etymon Hellenistic Greek παλιντοκία repayment of interest < ancient Greek πάλιν again (see palinodia n.) + τόκος birth, offspring, interest of money (see toco- comb. form) + -ία -ia suffix1. Compare palintocy n.
Obsolete.
Repayment of interest.
ΚΠ
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 893 What is Palintocia [Fr. Palintocia] among the Megarians?
1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. ix. 60 Passing a formal Palintokia or decree, to require from the rich who had lent money upon interest the refunding of all past interest paid to them by their debtors.
1850–9 C. Thirwall Hist. Greece 167/1 A much harder blow was aimed at their property by a measure called the palintocia..by which creditors were required to refund the interest which they had received from their debtors.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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