acounte

• IPA^(key): /aˈkuːnt(ə)/

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman acounte, aconte, from aconter (see acounten). Equivalent to a- +‎ counte (“computation”).

• accompt, accompte, accounte, acompte, acount, a-counte, acowmpt, acownte, acunt

acounte (plural acountes)

1. An enumeration or count; the act of counting.
2. (often in the plural) An account (financial record)
3. An explanation of actions or events.
4. (specifically) One's explanation at the Last Judgement.
   • c. 1370, [William Langland], “[Passus 8]”, in Petrus plowmon (V, A-text), Worcestershire, published c. 1390, folio 400, recto; republished as Bodleian Library MS. Eng. poet. a. 1, Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:

     At þe dredful day of dom. þͬ dede ſchullen a rẏſen. / And comen alle bi foꝛe criſt. and a Coũtes ȝelden.

     At the dreaded day of judgement, the dead will rise up, / and all come before Christ to give their accounts.

5. (with negative, rare) Value, regard.

• English: account
  • → Bulgarian: ака́унт (akáunt)
  • → Japanese: アカウント (akaunto)
  • → Malay: akaun
  • → Pohnpeian: akaund
  • → Russian: аккаунт (akkaunt)
  • → Swahili: akaunti
• Scots: accoont, account

• “accǒunt(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

acounte

1. alternative form of acounten