Ago vs Agio - What's the difference?
ago | agio |
(archaic, or, dialectal) Gone; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away.
(archaic, or, dialectal) Nearly gone; dead (used in )''
In the past.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.
* 1989 , Isaac Levy, translator, The Pentateuch'' (translation of, Samson Raphael Hirsch, ''Der Pentateuch, ubersetzt und erlautert ), second edition, volume 2, Exodus, Judaica Press, ISBN 0910818126, page 582 (commentary to Exodus 30:16),
* 1776 , Adam Smith, An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations , [http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=220&Itemid=28].
As an adjective ago
is gone; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away.As a preposition ago
is in the past.As a noun agio is
the premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.ago
English
Alternative forms
* ygo (obsolete), ygoe (obsolete), agon (obsolete), agoneAdjective
(en adjective)- in days ago'''/in days '''agone
Usage notes
* Usually follows the noun.Preposition
(English prepositions)Damned if you don’t, passage=Two years ago a pair of scientists sparked fears of a devastating virus. [They] separately found ways to make a strain of bird flu called H5N1 more contagious. Critics fretted that terrorists might use this knowledge to cook up a biological weapon. American officials ordered that the papers be redacted. Further research was put on hold. But after much debate, the papers were published in full last year.}}
Derived terms
* long agoSee also
* (projectlink)References
* G. A. Cooke, The County of DevonStatistics
*agio
English
Noun
(en noun)- Owing to the enormous number of half-shekel coins required each year in Adar, these were greatly in demand, and the money-changers made a small fixed charge of an agio for changing whole into half shekels.
- The money of such banks being better than the common currency of the country, necessarily bore an agio , which was greater or smaller, according as the currency was supposed to be more or less degraded below the standard of the state.