halfpenny

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈheɪp(ə)ni/|/ˌhɑːfˈpɛni/    美 /ˈheɪp(ə)ni/|/ˌhæfˈpɛni/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Senses chiefly with the plural form halfpennies.; A discontinued English (later British) coin worth half of one penny (old or new). UK,also,attributive,historical
    — There vvere none principal, they vvere all like one another, as halfe pence are, euerie one fault ſeeming monſtrous, til his fellovv-fault came to match it.
  2. Senses chiefly with the plural form halfpennies.; A similar coin formerly used in Ireland and Scotland. Ireland,Scotland,also,attributive,broadly
  3. Senses chiefly with the plural form halfpence.; An amount of money that the English (later British) coin was worth. UK,also,attributive,historical
    — There ſhall be in England, ſeuen halfe peny Loaues ſold for a peny: the three hoop'd pot, ſhall haue ten hoopes, and I vvill make it Fellony to drink ſmall Beere.
  4. Senses chiefly with the plural form halfpence.; An amount of money that the Irish or Scottish coin was worth. Ireland,Scotland,also,attributive,broadly
  5. A postage stamp worth half of one penny. broadly,historical
  6. A usually semicircular earmark made in the ear of a livestock animal. Australia,US,archaic,broadly
  7. A small piece; a fragment. broadly,figuratively,obsolete
    — O ſhe tore the letter into a thouſand halfpence, raild at her ſelf, that ſhe ſhould be ſo immodeſt to vvrite, to one that ſhe knevv vvould flout her, […]

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
bord halfpenny halfpenny farthing halfpenny of gold halfpenny under the hat halfpennyworth have one's hand on another halfpenny have one's heart on one's halfpenny not a halfpenny the worse shove halfpenny three halfpence twopenny-halfpenny

词源

From Middle English halpeni, halfpeni (“English coin worth half a penny; coin used in biblical times; small foreign coin”), and then either:
* from half (“half”) (from Old English healf; ultimate etymology unknown, possible from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to incline”) or *(s)kelH- (“to cut; to separate, split”)) + peni, penni (“English coin; coin used in biblical times; foreign coin; (especially in the plural) cash, money; pennyweight”) (from Old English penning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz (“coin, penny”); further etymology uncertain); or
* from Late Old English halpene, halpenige (which can also be construed as early Middle English), from healf + penning (see above).
By surface analysis, half + penny.
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