Meanings
adjectiveeighteenpenny (not comparable)
- not comparableHaving a value or cost of eighteenpence.
On his head he wore one of the common eighteenpenny French skull-caps, with a gawdy tassel dangling therefrom, very happily in keeping with a common fustian coat.
1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*oḱtṓw
- Proto-Germanic*ahtōu
- Proto-Indo-European*déḱm̥
- Proto-Germanic*tehun
- Proto-Germanic*ahtōutehun
- Anglian Old Englisheahtatēne
- Middle Englisheightetene
- Englisheighteen
- Ancient Greekπᾰτᾰ́νη (pătắnē)
- Latinpatina
- Latinpanna?
- Latinpannus?
- Proto-Germanic*panningaz
- Proto-West Germanic*panning
- Old Englishpeniġ
- Middle Englishpeny
- Englishpenny
- Englisheighteenpenny
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APA
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Chicago
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