pice
パイス（インドの硬貨）
解説 Definition
ピース；インドの小さな硬貨。
A former small-denomination coin or monetary unit used in India, especially during the colonial period. The term is now chiefly historical and appears in accounts of old prices, wages, and transactions.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
pice はインドの歴史的な小額硬貨・通貨単位で、現代の paisa や rupee と結び付けて覚えます。植民地期の記録で a pice、褣数形 pice または pices の形が見られます。現代の日常通貨というより、古い価格・賃金・取引を読むときの歴史語です。
Place pice beside rupee and paisa in a historical money chart. A rupee is the larger unit, while pice refers to a small coin or subdivision found especially in accounts of colonial India. This makes phrases such as a few pice or payment in pice easier to recognize. Do not treat it as the ordinary name of a current coin; its natural setting is an old ledger, travel account, law, or historical narrative. The plural may appear as pice or pices, depending on usage and period.
例文
A pice was a monetary unit in colonial India.
ピースは植民地インドの金銭単位だった。
Pices were gradually replaced by larger denominations.
ピースは徐々に大きな額面に置き換えられた。
Historical records mention pice transactions.
歴史的記録はピースの取引について言及している。
pice の類義語・関連語
pice の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ヒンディー語 paisā（小銭）に由来し、サンスクリット語 padāṃśa（pad 四分の一＋aṃśa 部分）が語源。インドの通貨単位で1ルピーの100分の1。関連語: paisa（パイサ）、rupee（ルピー）。
English pice was borrowed through South Asian usage and is related to Hindi paisā, a word for a coin or small amount of money. The deeper history is commonly connected with Sanskrit padāṃśa, literally a “quarter part,” formed from pada, “quarter,” and aṃśa, “part” or “share.” Its precise value varied across monetary systems and periods, so the word is best understood broadly as a historical Indian small coin.
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