mortgage: [14] Mortgage means literally ‘dead pledge’. It comes from Old French mortgage, a compound formed from mort ‘dead’ and gage ‘pledge’ (source of English gage and closely related to English wage). The notion behind the word is supposedly that if the mortgagor fails to repay the loan, the property pledged as security is lost, or becomes ‘dead’, to him or her. => mortal, wage
mortgage (n.)
late 14c., morgage, "conveyance of property as security for a loan or agreement," from Old French morgage (13c.), mort gaige, literally "dead pledge" (replaced in modern Frech by hypothèque), from mort "dead" (see mortal (adj.)) + gage "pledge" (see wage (n.)). So called because the deal dies either when the debt is paid or when payment fails. Old French mort is from Vulgar Latin *mortus "dead," from Latin mortuus, past participle of mori "to die" (see mortal (adj.)). The -t- restored in English based on Latin.
mortgage (v.)
late 15c., from mortgage (n.). Related: Mortgaged; mortgaging.
中文解释
mortal + engage 用生命来保证
实用例句
1. Jennie took in a lodger to help with the mortgage.
珍妮收了一个房客，以减轻按揭的负担。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Thousands of its customers are in arrears with loans and mortgage payments.
有数千客户拖欠其贷款和抵押贷款还款。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The recent rebound in mortgage rates could snuff out the housing recovery.
抵押贷款利率最近的回升可能会扼杀房地产的复苏。
来自柯林斯例句
4. The bank foreclosed on the mortgage for his previous home.
银行取消了他先前住房的抵押赎回权。
来自柯林斯例句
5. I sometimes find it a strain to be responsible for the mortgage.
