money

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The coins and banknotes used to buy and sell things.

   I don't have enough money to buy a new phone.

2. 2
   noun

   Wealth; the total amount someone owns.

   He was born into money and never had to work.

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Simplified etymology

Money descends from Latin moneta, associated with Juno Moneta, at whose temple in ancient Rome coins were produced. The same Latin name also lies behind mint in the sense of a place where coins are made.

Etymology tree Latin Monēta Latin monēta Old French moneie Old French monoie Anglo-Norman muneiebor. Middle English moneye English money From Middle English moneye, moneie, money, borrowed from Anglo-Norman muneie (“money”), from Latin monēta (“money, a place for coining money, coin, mint”), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was. In this sense, displaced native Old English feoh, 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.

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