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tontine

Meaningsurname of a financier

Common meaning: investment in which survivors receive shares from a common fund

Journey through time

  1. ItalianTonti‘surname of a financier’source
  2. Frenchmeaning shiftssurname of a financier → a ton- tinetontine‘a ton- tine’source
  3. Englishmeaning shiftsa ton- tine → investment in which survivors receive shares from a common fundtontine‘investment in which survivors receive shares from a common fund’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Italian Tonti ‘surname of a financier’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry TONTINE, p. 649 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • Tonti Italian “surname of a financier”

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