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. […], 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.

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)