Etymology
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From Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia (“money”), itself from pecū (“cattle”) and thus related to fee.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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pecuniary (not comparable)
- Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.
1858, Anthony Trollope, “Chapter IV”, in Doctor Thorne. […], volumes (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.
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Translations
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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)
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