英语词汇coin的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	coin
词源	coin. Our coin takes its name from the wedge-shaped die once used to make pieces of metal money. The French coign, deriving from the Latin cuneus and meaning wedge, was given first to the die and then to the money made on the die. Coign later passed into English as coin. Coin came to be a general word for money in early times because most money was in the form of coins.
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