farthing

• n. a little, a very little; farthing（1961年以前の英国の銅貨で、1ペニーの4分の1に相当する）。
• n. （ファージング）人の名前; ファージング

farth、4分の1、語源的には4分の1と同じ。

farthing

farthing: [OE] Farthing has a long history as an English coin-name, going back to the 10th century, when it was used in translations of the Bible to render Latin quadrans, a quarter of a denarius. It was introduced into English currency (as a silver coin equal to a quarter of a penny) in the reign of Edward I; in Charles Il’s time copper was used for it, and from 1860 until its abolition in 1971 it was a bronze coin.

Appropriately, the term means literally ‘quarter’; it was originally a derivative of Old English fēortha ‘fourth’, formed with the suffix -ing denoting ‘fractional part’ (found also in riding [11], former name of the administrative areas of Yorkshire, which etymologically means ‘third part’).
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farthing (n.)

Old English feoreing (Old Northumbrian feoreung) "quarter of a penny; a fourth part," a diminutive derivative of feorea "fourth" (from feower "four;" see four) + -ing "fractional part." Cognate with Old Frisian fiardeng, Middle Low German verdink, Old Norse fjoreungr, Old Danish fjerdung "a fourth part of anything."

In late Old English also a division of land, probably originally a quarter of a hide. The modern English coin first was minted under Edward I and abolished 1961. The word was used in biblical translations for Latin quadrans "quarter of a denarius."

I shall geat a fart of a dead man as soone As a farthyng of him. [Heywood, "Proverbs," 1562]

1. Farthing Lane 's just above the High Street and parallel with it.

法辛巷はちょうど通りの北側にあり、通りと平行である。

2.He doesn 't care a farthing .

彼は何も気にしない.

3.'I 'll have my dues，and not a farthing over.

私の母は言いました。I am ready to pay to the uttermost farthing .

私はこの借金をすべて返済したいと思っています。ゼロも残っていません。

5.He never gave away a farthing in his life.

彼は一生人に小さな銅を与えなかった。