Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

assientist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: assi-en-tist
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A shareholder of the Assiento company involved in the slave trade.

noun

One of the parties to the Assiento contract.

Example Sentences

"as England gained the assiento , it was agreed that the agents of the assientists might enter all the ports of Spanish America"

Etymology

Compare French assientiste, Spanish asentista.

Inflected Forms

assientists (plural)

Questions

What does assientist mean?: A shareholder of the Assiento company involved in the slave trade.
Where does assientist come from?: Compare French assientiste, Spanish asentista.

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