pecuniary

English

Etymology

From Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia (“money”), itself from pecū (“cattle”) and thus related to fee.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɪˈkjuːn(jə)ɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pəˈkjuniɛɹi/

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Adjective

pecuniary (not comparable)

1. Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.
   • 1858, Anthony Trollope, “Chapter IV”, in Doctor Thorne. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:

     Perhaps the reader will suppose after this that the doctor had some pecuniary interest of his own in arranging the squire's loans; or, at any rate, he will think that the squire must have thought so.

   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:

     The views of philosophers, with few exceptions, have coincided with the pecuniary interests of their class.

Derived terms

• nonpecuniary
• pecuniary unit

Related terms

• pecunious

Translations

of or relating to money

Arabic: نَقْدِيّ (naqdiyy), مَالِيّ (māliyy) Belarusian: грашавы́ (hrašavý), валю́тны (valjútny) Bulgarian: пари́чен (paríčen), валу́тен (valúten) Catalan: monetari (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 金錢的 / 金钱的 (jīnqián de), 與金錢相關的 / 与金钱相关的 (yǔ jīnqián xiāngguān de), 經濟的 / 经济的 (jīngjì de) Czech: pekuniární, peněžní (cs) Dutch: pecuniair (nl) Esperanto: mona (eo) Finnish: raha-, rahallinen (fi), monetaarinen (fi) French: monétaire (fr), pécuniaire (fr) German: Geld- (de), geldlich (de), finanziell (de), pekuniär (de) Greek: χρηματικός (el) m (chrimatikós), νομισματικός (el) m (nomismatikós) Hungarian: pénzügyi (hu), üzleti (hu), financiális (hu), anyagi (hu) Ido: pekuniala (io) Italian: pecuniario (it) Japanese: 貨幣の (ja) (かへいの, kahei no), 金銭的な (きんせんてきな, kinsenteki na) Korean: 화폐(貨幣) (ko) (hwapye) Macedonian: паричен (paričen) Persian: پولی (fa) (puli), مالی (fa) (mâli) Polish: pieniężny (pl), walutowy (pl) Portuguese: monetário (pt), pecuniário (pt) Romanian: monetar (ro), pecuniar (ro) Russian: де́нежный (ru) (dénežnyj), валю́тный (ru) (valjútnyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: но̀вчанӣ Roman: nòvčanī (sh) Slovak: peňažný, finančný Slovene: denaren Spanish: monetario (es), pecuniario (es) Swedish: pekuniär (sv), monetär (sv), penning- (sv) Ukrainian: грошови́й (hrošovýj), гроше́вий (hrošévyj), валю́тний (uk) (valjútnyj) Welsh: ariannol (cy)