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money

English

Alternative forms

  • monie (archaic)
  • mony (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English money, moneie, moneye, borrowed from Old French moneie (money), from Latin mon?ta (money, a place for coining money, coin, mint), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was. Displaced native Middle English schat (money, treasure) (from Old English s?eatt (money, treasure, coin)), Middle English feoh (money, property) (from Old English feoh (money, property, cattle), whence English fee). Doublet of mint, ultimately from the same Latin word but through Germanic and Old English, and of manat, through Russian and Azeri or Turkmen.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?m?ni/, [?m?ni]
  • (US) IPA(key): /?m?ni/
  • Rhymes: -?ni
  • Hyphenation: mon?ey

Noun

money (usually uncountable, plural monies or moneys) (plural used only in certain senses)

  1. A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
  2. A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
  3. A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
  4. Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
  5. The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
  6. Wealth; a person, family or class that possesses wealth
  7. An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
  8. A person who funds an operation.

Synonyms

  • beer tickets, bread, bucks, cake, cash, cheddar, coin, cream, currency, dinars, dosh, dough, ducats, folding stuff, funds, geld, gelt, greenbacks, jack, legal tender, lolly, means, moolah, lucre, paper, pennies, readies, sheets, shrapnel, simoleons, spends, spondulicks, sterling, wonga
  • (generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value):
  • (currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value):
  • (hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins):
  • See also Thesaurus:money

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

  • mint

Descendants

  • Sranan Tongo: moni

Translations

Further reading

  • money in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • money in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • money at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

  • money on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • myeon, yenom

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • moneie, moneye, monye, monaye, monee, moonay, mone, monnoye, monoye, monnoy, monny, mony, monney, monay, monoie, monie

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French moneie, from Latin mon?ta; doublet of mynt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mu?n?i?(?)/, /?mun?i?(?)/

Noun

money (uncountable)

  1. money, currency
  2. coinage, coin
  3. wealth, fortune
  4. bribe (immoral earnings)

Derived terms

  • moneyles
  • moneyour
  • moneyen
  • money-worthe
  • monymaker

Descendants

  • English: money
  • Scots: money
  • Yola: monie

References

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

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agio

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian aggio.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?æ.d?o?/, /???.d?o?/, /?æ.d?i?o?/

Noun

agio (plural agios)

  1. (economics, finance) The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.
    • 1989, Isaac Levy, translator, The Pentateuch (translation of, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Der Pentateuch, ubersetzt und erlautert), second edition, volume 2, Exodus, Judaica Press, ?ISBN, page 582 (commentary to Exodus 30:16),
      Owing to the enormous number of half-shekel coins required each year in Adar, these were greatly in demand, and the money-changers made a small fixed charge of an agio for changing whole into half shekels.
    • 1776, Adam Smith, An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, [1].
      The money of such banks being better than the common currency of the country, necessarily bore an agio, which was greater or smaller, according as the currency was supposed to be more or less degraded below the standard of the state.

Translations

Anagrams

  • Iago

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian aggio.

Noun

agio n (plural agio's, diminutive agio'tje n)

  1. agio

References

  • https://www.vandale.nl/

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian aggio.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.?jo/

Noun

agio m (plural agios)

  1. exchange premium, agio

Further reading

  • “agio” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch agio, from Italian aggio, from Old Occitan aize, from Vulgar Latin *adjace(m), from Latin adjac?ns, present participle of adjace? (compare Medieval Latin in aiace).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?a?io?]
  • Hyphenation: agio

Noun

agio (first-person possessive agioku, second-person possessive agiomu, third-person possessive agionya)

  1. (economics) agio.

Compounds

Further reading

  • “agio” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan aize, from Vulgar Latin *adjace(m), from Latin adjac?ns, present participle of adjace? (compare Medieval Latin in aiace). Cognate with Old French aise, eise, French aise and aisance; compare also Catalan eina. Doublet of adiacente.

Noun

agio m (plural agi)

  1. ease, comfort
    Antonym: disagio
  2. luxury, comfort

Related terms

  • adagio
  • agiato

Verb

agio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of agiare

Anagrams

  • gaio

Romanian

Etymology

From Italian aggio.

Noun

agio n (plural agiuri)

  1. agio

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