來自nine的復數形式，引申詞義完美，因9在古代哲學觀念里意味著完美，極限。在中國神話傳說里9同樣也意味著完美，如九重天，即至高天。
[T]he Book of St. Albans, in the sections on blasonry, lays great stress on the nines in which all perfect things (orders of angels, virtues, articles of chivalry, differences of coat armour, etc.) occur. [Weekley]No one seems to consider that it might be a corruption and misdivision of to then anes, literally "for the one (purpose or occasion)," a similar construction to the one that yielded nonce (q.v.).
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