Translation
share (in a company)
Word origin
From German Aktie and French action in their financial sense, both from Latin actio ('a doing, a claim at law'). The commercial meaning was fixed in seventeenth-century Dutch, where aktie was a claim on a trading company.
- Origin
- German
- Root
- actio
- English cognates
- action, active
Examples
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He bought shares in a big company.
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The price of the shares fell in one day.
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She invested all her money in shares.
Finance only. This is the trap the word sets for English and French speakers
alike: looks like "action" and never means it. An action, a deed, is
ago; an ongoing activity is o; a political campaign is kampanjo. An
is one of the equal parts into which a company's capital is divided, and
nothing else.
The family is exactly what you would predict. An o is a
shareholder - -- for the person - and an akcia is a joint-stock
company. Akcia is the adjective, so akcia is the stock market and
akcia is share capital. A shareholders' meeting is a
oj.
Where it sits next to investi. You
money, time or effort in something; buying is one particular way of
doing that. The return on them is o, and their price is their
prezo, which is what falls in the second example
above.
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