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English
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Etymology
From Middle English moneyour, partly from Middle English money + our, and partly from Anglo-Norman monoiier, monneiere, monnier. Equivalent to money + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
moneyer (plural moneyers)
- (archaic) Synonym of moneylender, one who loans money to others at interest.
- A minter: one who makes money, particularly (historical) the superintendent of a mint producing coinage.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 350:As best they could, the imperial moneyers carved coin dies which imitated the coins of ancient Rome from half a millennium before.
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Middle English
Noun
moneyer
- Alternative form of moneyour