assignat

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From French assignat.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈasɪɡnat/, /asɪˈnja/

Noun[edit]

assignat (plural assignats)

  1. (now historical) A banknote used during the French Revolution, on the security of state land. [from 18th c.]
    • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 196:
      If the landed man wishes to mortgage, he falls the value of his land, and raises the value of assignats.
    • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 387:
      [O]n her request for money, I took out a parcel of assignats I had in my pocket.
    • 1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, published 2010, page 25:
      He was in favour of a national bank; he was strongly opposed to the reckless issue of assignats and spoke against it in the Assembly.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 508:
      The continuing depreciation of the assignat was worsening problems: in November and December, the currency's cash return dipped below 1 per cent of its face value, bringing a comic aspect to many exchanges and inducing street beggars to decline alms in paper form.

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Pronunciation[edit]

Participle[edit]

assignat (feminine assignada, masculine plural assignats, feminine plural assignades)

  1. past participle of assignar

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From assign(er) +‎ -at.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /a.si.ɲa/
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Noun[edit]

assignat m (plural assignats)

  1. (historical) assignat

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Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

assignat

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of assignō