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Italian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pecūnia, derived from pecū (“cattle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈku.nja/
- Rhymes: -unja
- Hyphenation: pe‧cù‧nia
Noun
pecunia f (plural pecunie) (literary)
- (usually uncountable, archaic, now chiefly humorous) money
- Synonym: denaro
- (obsolete) treasury (public finance)
- Synonym: erario
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Further reading
- pecunia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
From an unattested adjective *pecūnus "having cattle" plus -ia, the first from pecū (“cattle”) + -nus.
Pronunciation
Noun
pecūnia f (genitive pecūniae); first declension
- money
Sī pecūniam habērem, pānem emerem.- If I had money, I would buy bread.
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.- I have a catapult. Unless you give me all of the money, I will fling an enormous rock at your head.
- wealth
- (figuratively) cash, ready money, liquid wealth
Declension
First-declension noun.
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References
- “pecunia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pecunia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pecunia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- pecunia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to contribute alms: stipem (pecuniam) conferre
- to squander one's money, one's patrimony: effundere, profundere pecuniam, patrimonium
- to leave money to a person in one's will: pecuniam alicui legare
- much money: pecunia magna, grandis (multum pecuniae)
- little money: pecunia exigua or tenuis
- cash; ready money: pecunia praesens (vid. sect. V. 9, note Notice too...) or numerata
- to spend money: pecuniam erogare (in classem)
- to devote money to a purpose: pecuniam insumere in aliquid or consumere in aliqua re
- to pay cash: pecuniam numerare alicui (Att. 16. 16)
- to pay money: pecuniam solvere
- to owe some one money: pecuniam alicui debere
- 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)
- to put money in an undertaking: pecuniam collocare in aliqua re
- the money is bringing in no interest, lies idle: pecunia iacet otiosa
- to borrow money from some one: pecuniam mutuari or sumere mutuam ab aliquo
- to lend money to some one: pecuniam alicui mutuam dare
- to repay a loan: pecuniam creditam solvere
- to demand payment: pecuniam exigere (acerbe)
- to have a large income from a thing (e.g. from mines): magnas pecunias ex aliqua re (e.g. ex metallis) facere
- finance; money-matters: ratio pecuniarum
- money is outstanding, unpaid: pecunia in nominibus est
- I have money owing me: pecuniam in nominibus habeo
- credit and financial position: fides et ratio pecuniarum
- to have pecuniary difficulties: laborare de pecunia
- to be reduced to extreme financial embarrassment: in maximas angustias (pecuniae) adduci
- to extort money from the communities: pecuniam cogere a civitatibus
- the public income from the mines: pecunia publica, quae ex metallis redit
- to embezzle money: avertere pecuniam (Verr. 2. 1. 4)
- to accuse some one of malversation, embezzlement of public money: accusare aliquem peculatus, pecuniae publicae
- to condemn some one to a fine: pecunia multare aliquem
- “pecunia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “pecunia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- pecunia in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pecu”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 454
Spanish
Noun
pecunia f (plural pecunias)
- (colloquial) dosh; spondulicks; cash
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