Translation
money; wealth, property
Examples
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He gave money to the soldiers.
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Without money you can do nothing.
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His wealth was great.
cupidus .
He was greedy for money.
consumpsit.
He spent a great deal of money on the war.
Pecunia, pecuniae is first declension feminine, and it comes from pecus, cattle: wealth was once counted in livestock, and the word never forgot it. In classical prose it means money in the concrete sense - coin, a sum, funds - and by extension property generally. Pecuniam dare is to pay; pecunia publica is the treasury's money.
The related peculium is the private fund a slave or a son under his father's authority was allowed to keep as his own, and that is where English peculiar comes from, by way of "belonging to one person alone". Pecuniary and impecunious are the plainer descendants.
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