喜樂美語

You can picture a dividend as the pot that is waiting to be cut up: a company has made a profit, and part of that pile is set aside to be divided among everyone who owns a piece of the company. The word points at the thing standing there ready to be split, and at the share that comes out of the splitting.

可以想成 dividend 就是那一堆「等著被切開的東西」：公司賺了錢，其中一部分被撥出來，準備照每個人手上的股份分下去。這個字一邊指那堆等著被分的東西，一邊也指分完之後落到你手上的那一份——所以中文有時候講「股息」，有時候講「分紅」。

From the word’s history

From Latin dividendum, 'thing to be divided', the gerundive of dividere 'to force apart, distribute'. In English it first meant 'a portion or share of anything to be divided' (late 15c.); the arithmetic sense 'number to be divided by another' appeared in the 1540s, and the money sense 'sum to be divided into equal parts' in the 1620s.

dividend 來自拉丁文 dividendum，字面就是「要被分掉的那個東西」（動詞 dividere 是「分開、分送」）。英文最早用的是「一整份裡要被分出去的那一份」（15 世紀末），1540 年代數學把它借去指「要被另一個數除的那個數」，1620 年代再進到金錢上，變成「要平均分給大家的那一筆」。所以股息和被除數表面上毫不相干，其實共用同一句話：等著被分的那個東西。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'dividend'

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

複數 dividends

意思相近

payoutshare of profitsreturnprize moneywinnings

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

dividendnoun/ˈdɪvɪdɛnd/

  • 1

    businessfinanceA cash payment of money by a company to its shareholders, usually made periodically (e.g., quarterly or annually).

    • On all dividends which do not exceed six per centum per annum, eight per centum; on dividends exceeding six per centum and not exceeding seven per centum, a tax of nine per centum...
    • Quarterly or annual dividend payments provide good income streams for investors who need cash in the short-term. And for those playing the longer game, dividends can be reinvested to buy even more shares in those same companies.
  • 2

    arithmeticA number or expression that is to be divided by another.

    • In "42 ÷ 3" the dividend is the 42.
  • 3

    Beneficial results from a metaphorical investment (of time, effort, etc.)

    • His 10,000 hours of practice and recitals eventually paid dividends when he become first-chair violinist.
    • That blood and pain paid a dividend, too, even when the subject wasn't a sorcerer.

dividendverb/ˈdɪvɪdɛnd/

  • 1

    To pay out a dividend.

    • He held instead that the words "sell or otherwise dispose of" in Clause 2 of the Shareholders' Agreement prevented the dividending of the shares in Hawker Holdings to the shareholders of Hawker Siddeley […]
    • Therefore, $125 million of 1983 Preferred Shares (Blue Jay) would be tendered for retirement with $135 million of the $370 million dividended up to Blue Jay.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。