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Latin
Noun
fēnus n (genitive fēnoris); third declension
- Alternative form of faenus
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
References
- “fenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fenus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to lend some one money (without interest): pecuniam alicui credere (sine fenore, usuris)
- to lend, borrow money at interest: pecuniam fenori (fenore) alicui dare, accipere ab aliquo
- to put out money at interest: pecuniam fenore occupare (Flacc. 21. 54)
- the rate of interest has gone up from 4 per cent to 8 per cent: fenus ex triente Id. Quint. factum erat bessibus (Att. 4. 15. 7)
- simple interests: perpetuum fenus (Att. 5. 21. 13)
- compound interest: fenus renovatum
- exorbitant rate of interest: fenus iniquissimum, grande, grave
- “fenus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “fenus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin