Zinseszins

German

Etymology

Zins (“interest”) +‎ -es- +‎ Zins, literally “interest of interest”. First attested in the dictionary by Kaspar von Stieler (1691), with the gloss "zins auf zins anatocismus, usura usurarum".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtsɪnzəsˌtsɪns/

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• Hyphenation: Zin‧ses‧zins

Noun

Zinseszins m (mixed, genitive Zinseszinses, plural Zinseszinsen)

1. (banking, finance) compound interest

Further reading

• “Zinseszins” in Duden online
• Zinseszins on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de