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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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specie

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?spi??i/

Etymology 1

Originally in the phrase in specie; from Latin speci?, ablative singular of species. Compare payment in kind.

Noun

specie (uncountable)

  1. Type or kind, in various uses of the phrase in specie.
  2. Money, especially in the form of coins made from precious metal, that has an intrinsic value; coinage.
    • 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, Ch. IX:
      I received one month's pay in specie while on the march to Virginia, in the year 1781, and except that, I never received any pay worth the name while I belonged to the army.
    • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 805:
      ‘It was not money or specie he thought himself hunting!’
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 8:
      “Dick” Counterfly had absquatulated swiftly into the night, leaving his son with only a pocketful of specie and the tender admonition, “Got to ‘scram,’ kid — write if you get work.”
Translations

See also

  • payment in kind

Etymology 2

Back-formation from species (plural), the final “s” being misinterpreted as a plural ending.

Noun

specie (plural species)

  1. (proscribed) singular of species
Usage notes
  • Although in wide use, this is universally considered by prescriptive references to be an error.

Anagrams

  • pieces

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin speci?s.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?spe?.si/
  • Hyphenation: spe?cie
  • Rhymes: -e?si

Noun

specie f (plural speciën or species)

  1. mortar (in sense of mixture of lime or cement, sand and water)
    Synonyms: metselspecie, mortel
  2. coinage, specie, coins
  3. material used in casting

Derived terms

  • metselspecie

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin speci?s.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?sp?.t??e/
  • Rhymes: -?t?e
  • Hyphenation: spè?cie

Adverb

specie

  1. especially, particularly

Derived terms

  • fare specie (to amaze, shock)

Noun

specie f (invariable)

  1. kind, type, sort
  2. (biology) species, strain, breed
  3. (taxonomy) species

Related terms

  • cronospecie
  • speciale
  • speciazione
  • specifico

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /?spe.ki.e?/, [?s?p?kie?]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?spe.t??i.e/, [?sp??t??i?]

Noun

speci?

  1. ablative singular of speci?s

Preposition

speci?

  1. Under the pretext of. Under the guise of.

References

  • specie in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin speci?s.

Noun

specie f (plural specii)

  1. (biology) species
  2. kind, type, sort

See also

  • gen
  • tip
  • fel

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