finance

• n. 金融、財政学; 財政
• vt.資金を負担する、資金を提供する。
• vi. 資金を調達する
• n. （金融）人名；（仏）Finances.

ラテン語の「finis」（終了）が語源。資金を比較する。

finance

finance: [14] Finance comes ultimately from Latin fīnis ‘end’, and its present-day monetary connotations derive from the notion of ‘finally settling a debt by payment’. Its immediate source is Old French finance, a derivative of the verb finer ‘end, settle’, which when it was originally acquired by English still meant literally ‘end’: ‘God, that all things did make of nought … puttest each creature to his finance’, Coventry Mystery Plays 1400. The debt-settling sense had already developed by that time, but this did not broaden out into the current ‘management of monetary resources’ until the 18th century.
=> final, fine, finish

finance (n.)

c. 1400, "an end, settlement, retribution," from Old French finance "end, ending; pardon, remission; payment, expense; settlement of a debt" (13c.), noun of action from finer "to end, settle a dispute or debt," from fin (see fine (n.)). Compare Medieval Latin finis "a payment in settlement, fine or tax."

The notion is of "ending" (by satisfying) something that is due (compare Greek telos "end;" plural tele "services due, dues exacted by the state, financial means"). The French senses gradually were brought into English: "ransom" (mid-15c.), "taxation" (late 15c.); the sense of "management of money, science of monetary business" first recorded in English 1770.

finance (v.)

late 15c., "to ransom" (obsolete), from finance (n.). Sense of "to manage money" is recorded from 1827; that of "to furnish with money" is from 1866. Related: Financed; financing.

1. The finance minister will continue to mastermind Poland 's economic reform.

財務相はポーランドの経済改革を引き続き企画する。

2.The scheme offers seed corn finance with loans at only 4%interest.

このスキームは種子基金融資を提供し、その融資は4%の利息しか取らない。

3.Foreign Office officials assisted with transport and finance problems.

外交部官僚が輸送と経費問題の解決を支援している。

4.He majored in finance at Clarement Men 's College in California.

カリフォルニア州のクレアモント男子校で金融学科を専攻している。

5.The United States was tops in finance and services.

米国は金融業とサービス業では匹敵しない。