zecchinとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• zechin, zequeen, zequin

語源

From Italian zecchino, from Italian zecca (“mint”), from Arabic سكّة‎ (sikka, “die for coining, coin”). Doublet of sequin.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛkɪn/

名詞

zecchin (複数形 zecchins)

1. (historical) Any of various gold coins produced in Italy or Turkey; a sequin.
   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 9,^[1]

     […] the noble armour, that was worth so many zecchins to Joseph Pareira, the armourer of Milan, besides seventy in the hundred of profits, he cares for it as little as if he had found it in the highways!”